Diary of a Gyrfalcon - I

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Got the inspiration to do diary posting from @kuerbis!!!

A first entry to young Johanna’s diary. The only people with access to this diary would be those who find it in roleplay; please do not metagame!

 

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Johanna Mathilde Barclay

Of Reinmar

 

A BLAZING & BALMY DAY . . . 

A young tribeswoman ventured over hill and dale, til’ she came upon the great orange buttes of the mesa. Dust swept the great plains, and so it led her to a town that rose like a scar above it, with sand-blasted timber walls and creaking doors. Trust had been her foe that day; for the girl had been lured into capture by the ranchers of Salvo.

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23rd of Harren’s Folly, 646, It was just last month that I was held captive by the Salvoman. I met a blue devil – she frightened me, at first, but taught me of her people. How many of them are ‘agents of Ixris’ … and that you may tell if they are by the brand he leaves upon them! But she then shut the gate behind me, and I knew something was wrong.   Men in masks and strange, wide-brim hats funneled in. They stole the crossbow I’d lifted from a dwarf … thankfully, nothing else. And then the devil poured glue on me! She was intent on giving me horns, but, by Gotte's grace, it was the Salvoman that warded her off. Later, did they both fight together against my kin when they came to save me.   → My CAPTORS!   I even made a friend during this, Jolly. She said she’s from ‘space’, and that her mom is a god, and how they take trips around the stars. I believe her, because she’s purple.    The entire ordeal was very embarrassing … I mean, I am very grateful! But there were so many of my kin that came all that way, and they could’ve gotten hurt. I wish I was strong enough to have fought them all off. Their leader tried to execute me while I was being rescued. He shot me, thrice, which I am still healing from. It messed up my shoulder quite badly. I've never felt this kind of sadness before.   Caius visits lots! He’s the only friend I told about this … if anyone else knew the Salvoman predicament, I’d … just feel very ashamed. He visited again today, and he told me all of what’s been happening, and why his mother hasn’t been so present. His father had a bastard, apparently, and it now lives with them in the palace. My vater and mutter, and all my tutors, have always impressed upon me and my bruder how no Barclay has ever sired a bastard. I cannot help but wonder if perhaps the Crown Prinz was possessed by Iblees to do this. No man chosen by Gotte would hurt his family so, nor would he bring himself into such ill-graces with them. I hate to see Caius so sad and afraid.   Anywho. He told me more about what his mother told him. Many people will want to hurt him, and even more will want to dupe him, so he needs to start thinking of his future. She said I would be a good Empress, to which he concurred. → Me killing an epic beast (Caius said we cannot kill dragons because the Imperial family are dragons (they are?) so this is some kind of demon, or, something   I believe I'm more of a Knightly-person than an Empress-person. Caius said I could be both, probably, although I think I'd be chagrined if I had to be accompanied by a bunch of guards simply to go hunting! Oh, well. Perhaps if I am a Knight-Empress-Guard then I can be my own retinue!   “Hyge sceal þe heardre, heorte þe cenre, Mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað.” “Will must be the harder, heart the keener, Spirit the greater, as our strength dwindles.”