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Kiri's Diary

Dear Diary,


Today was not the day I thought it was going to be.

Z, Digby, Ali, Rustok and I all went down into the caves under Glimmerspeak. We followed the trail to an alcove looking for the next clue to figure out about that weird box Z and Rustok found at the top of the peak, but when we went down there, there were these two shady guys in our way. I don’t know what they were doing, probably something suspicious. Digby and I tried to convince them to leave without having to tell them, but things got weird and Digby turned into a goat again and went crazy! He tried to crush my skull and that was very rude of him. Anyway, he ran off after those two guys ran away from him and Ali followed to try and get him back but then Rustok found a weird symbol on the wall and managed to walk through it, he straight up disappeared! Z followed him and when I tried to join them, I couldn’t get in, but Z helped me and I got through!


We walked through this super dark tunnel for what felt like forever but finally, it opened into a cavern with a pretty little river that went out into a lake and under the waterfall to probably the rest of the water out and around Shimmershaven. There were also these weird stones, I went to go look at them while Z and Rustok stayed to get a drink from the water. Around the corner I heard Truk! She was making those creepy noises again and was covered in some really pretty glowing runes! I followed her cautiously because honestly she gives me the creeps. Don’t tell Z I don’t want to hurt her feelings. Anyway, Truk disappeared behind a rock and then out of the wall came my dad, and guess what diary, he was wearing the armour of the Raven Queen! And he had that weird broken lance I saw in my scry, he told me that I was a disappointment and that he never loved me and that he was going to kill me, I managed to blind him but Truk let him know where I was.


So anyway my dad stabbed me and then I saw Chiseltick, he was my hero again, but then I lost him and I was floating, or falling, or both. And then I saw a storm and the Raven Queen came to me in the storm, the actual Raven Queen diary! Can you believe it! But she told me I was basically a failure and that she didn’t want me anymore either. That made me super sad, then I was in front of my dad again, and even though I was still sad I was also super angry. I told my dad what’s what, can you believe that diary? I finally stood up to him! I told him that I know I’m not the daughter he wanted but I have done everything he ever asked of me, that anyone had ever asked of me, that I didn’t come home when he asked because I was trying to keep him and my friends alive after they were threatened, and then I hurt him, I hurt him a lot diary.


I would have killed him had he not stopped me, he told me that he might have underestimated me, that he was part of a group that was trying to stop the cataclysm, the one Sandhiss said I caused and that I’m trying to stop now. Dad said I could join him, that if I give up the Raven Queen and come with him I can help stop the cataclysm and keep the people I love safe. That’s what I’ve been trying to do diary, I didn’t want to give up on the Raven Queen but she had given up on me and I just want to keep my friends safe, so I agreed, as sad as it made me I joined my dad. I took his arm to go with him and ended up alone on the peak overlooking Shimmershaven. It was super confusing, so I scryed on my dad to see where he had gone, but get this diary, he was at home asleep next to mum, he had been this whole time! So if that wasn’t my dad, who was it that I agreed to help?


I tried scrying on the Raven Queen now I had seen her to find out, but I got nothing. I was defeated diary, it was one of the lowest moments of my life, so I called Sandhiss to tell him I had failed and that I was sorry. He came and he wasn’t even mad! Well he was, but then he wasn’t. He wanted the box, I don’t know how he knew about the box but at first he was mad I didn’t have it, then he was mad I let Z enter the cavern and that it was a trial or something for her and like, if he had told me those things beforehand I wouldn’t have let Z enter and I would have gotten the box but no! He tells me nothing, again! He’s so cryptic. But then I told him I took the trial and he wasn’t angry any more, he was confused, then he said he had to see if this changed anything and disappeared on me giving me no answers again diary! I’m tired, today has been a long day and I don’t know where my friends are but I messaged Callius and he said Digby was on his way so I’m guessing he’s not a goat anymore.


Anyway, that’s me signing off diary, I hope your day was better than mine was.


Valkyrie Cordelia Aurelia Lockhart XX

Kiri's Diary

Glimmerspeak

Hey Diary,


I don’t know how but things got worse, a lot worse. While I was stuck at the top of the mountain I got teleported to I spotted the boys down on the shore below me, I called Callius to come and get me and he said Digby was on his way, but they were fighting. I knew it would take them some time and I didn’t have a way to get down to them to help so I did the only thing I could think of doing, I prayed. I reached out to the Raven Queen, not for help but to see if I could connect to her at all and I couldn’t diary. What if what my fake dad said is true and she doesn’t want me anymore? I could still cast magic so I reached out to someone I hadn’t reached out to in a long time, I prayed to Kellemvor. It worked, it was weak and shaky but it worked! I asked for help, that I needed to know the path and I think he heard me, it felt like he did, but I didn’t get a response.


So I scryed on the only person… or bird, that I thought could help me, I looked to see what Chiseltick was doing. He seemed bored, stuck, like he was in prison maybe but in a weird grey place, I thought that maybe that was just where he liked to go when he had free time, a quiet place to think you know? Hoping it wasn’t actually a jail because Chiseltick is a good boy. He is a good boy, right diary?


Anyway, after scrying, I looked down again and it seemed like the boys needed help so I did something dumb diary. Holding my amulet and one of Chiselticks feathers I jumped off the edge and into the water, I was hoping Chiseltick or someone would catch me but they didn’t. I used the feather to break my fall but it still really hurt, and then I was sinking, I always forget how heavy armor is in water, oops. But it was totally fine because water Digby came and helped me to shore, we also made a pinky promise. No more goats. he apologised for crushing my skull, he said the goat took over again but he wouldn’t turn into a goat again because it's super rude.


So anyway we get to shore and fight those weird dragon things and guess what diary?! When they die they poof into dust that turns you into a statue! It’s really gross, luckily I still have my healing staff which stops the effects but my skin is still really dry where it started to turn, yuck!


So we kill the gross dragon things, stop getting turned into stone and meet up with the other boys and Buu is dead! I knew I could bring him back diary but seeing him like that turned my heart into dust just like the dragons, like, he took the light out of the world with him when he died, I don’t think I have ever felt so physically sick seeing someone dead before but Buu, he’s different. Special.


We didn’t get time to think about it, for some reason the town was coming after us and Callius said we had to leave, we called and found Z, she said Rustock had gone somewhere but we don’t know where so we had to leave him behind. I sent him a message and got him humming this weird song back. Anyway, Digby teleported us back to Esterholt and we ran to the church so I could resurrect Buu, an old Kenku told us to run and tried to teleport us out of the church and into the field and a lightning bolt shot down and hit Buu’s body where I was! The Raven Queen and Kellemvor are mad at me and Buu is still dead, I can’t help anyone anymore. what use am I if I’m no help? I don’t know what to do Diary, what if what my fake dad said was right? What if I am better off dead?


Goodbye diary, I don’t know if you’ll see me again


Valkyrie Cordelia Aurelia Lockhart XX


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