Written By Merek
May 31, 2018, 7 p.m.(11/21/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Joscelin
Written By Merek
May 31, 2018, 6:59 p.m.(11/21/1008 AR)
Written By Cambria
May 31, 2018, 6:23 p.m.(11/20/1008 AR)
If good advice were easy to take, the world would have long ago been perfect. Or, at any rate, a great deal better off than it currently is.
Written By Malesh
May 31, 2018, 6:05 p.m.(11/20/1008 AR)
I can't imagine every publicly challenging the King's Chief Magistrate, but if I ever do there's something to be said for the fact that the only person I'll be shaming is myself, rather than my own cousin who both I and the target of my snub serve in different capacities.
Worry not, I can assure you from great personal experience that these things always blow over, and that our merciful King in his wisdom and humor is unlikely to deal too harshly with those that publicly question his judgement.
Written By Natalia
May 31, 2018, 5:44 p.m.(11/20/1008 AR)
1. It's to entertain you.
2. You're boring.
3. You didn't accept 'no' to #1. Or for any other thing. 'You didn't accept a no' is probably better.
4. You don't think I have the right to do so.
5. You're boring.
6. You think I owe you something because you're willing to pay me.
7. You talk to my chest and not my face. My eyes are really pretty too. Promise.
8. I don't feel like it at the time you ask.
9. I'm bad at whatever you're asking for (I can neither sing nor play any instruments, and have no interest in learning! as an example).
10. You socially abuse people who have no way to defend themselves against you.
11. You're mean to animals.
12. You're boring.
13. You disrespected one of the other Whispers and I found out about it.
14. You don't like dogs.
15. I would rather light myself on fire than do what the contract is requesting that I do. While there are a number of incredibly gifted and patient Whispers who would be more than happy to teach etiquette to your teenage children, I am not one of them. You don't want me to try. I promise. Unless it's for entertainment value, in which case I refer you back to no reason number 1.
This is not an all-inclusive list. Number eight is by far the main reason I say no. I am not calling anyone out in specific, so nobody who bothers reading my journals (I am still amazed when I find out anyone actually bothers, I am not an entertaining person, see #1!) should feel like I mean them. I don't. It does seem like a lot of people are surprised by the fact that we are able to decline particular contracts or refer people to others. We are not obligated to accept any given request; there are enough of us that someone can almost always be found, and if not, the request itself should probably be re-evaluated by the person making it.
These opinions are my own and do not reflect upon the other Whispers. Except that they have the right to say no for whatever reason they want, too.
Written By Lys
May 31, 2018, 5:38 p.m.(11/20/1008 AR)
Written By Ignacio
May 31, 2018, 5:23 p.m.(11/20/1008 AR)
While I have been making good progress on the defensive measures I have been working on, I find that my duties take me away from my wife more than I like. I believe I might be getting ahead of things and I should see to correct this. After all, she means everything to me, she should at least feel that way.
Written By Barik
May 31, 2018, 5:15 p.m.(11/20/1008 AR)
I believe him. We'll teach them fear, then.
Written By Percephon
May 31, 2018, 4:06 p.m.(11/20/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Monique
Written By Bliss
May 31, 2018, 3:57 p.m.(11/20/1008 AR)
I understand that to some, this is a difficult, terrifying task to perform. I know some even might think this is dangerous. But I have never been in doubt about who I really am - and I will fully admit, there are days that I am more her than I am the being I normally see myself as.
Is it so easy to look upon someone, I wonder, and see only the person that you wish to see, not who they really are? The answer is, of course, yes, unless you make sure to look with a critical eye. Watch how they behave with those they are trying to impress. With those they could care less about. Who they actively want to destroy. When they're angry. When they're afraid of loss. When they have something to prove. When they have nothing to prove. If you wish to really know a person, try to find a way to get them to show all these sides of themselves. You will see what emerges, you will see what they truly value - or even what they only value at those times. It is all important. Ignoring these sides of someone is dangerous. It is a lesson we have all learned far too often easily; it is a lesson far too easily forgotten.
There is much I could say about who I am seeing right now, but as I look between parchment and mirror, I realize these are things for the Blacks, or for private conversation - or perhaps better off left unsaid. She doesn't frighten me, though.
How could she, really?
Written By Joscelin
May 31, 2018, 2:39 p.m.(11/20/1008 AR)
I stared into the gray mist that clung to the sea, watched it creep towards the shore like wispy fingers full of time and history, my history. The voices I heard in the fog voices only I knew, people that had come and gone, leaving by Death or by will. I was waiting to see their faces, I was reaching out to touch them, any of them. But there was nothing.
Only a feeling of dust on my fingertips; the empty promise of a past left behind.
I should either quit drinking, or drink more.
Written By Preston
May 31, 2018, 2:20 p.m.(11/20/1008 AR)
Written By Aureth
May 31, 2018, 1:42 p.m.(11/20/1008 AR)
Or else what it costs is everything, and what you gain is moot.
As it happens, sometimes the bargain is worth it, and would be cheap at twice the price. But there's no moral certainty about this. It's a balance. Always, it depends what is on each side of that scale.
Written By Arik
May 31, 2018, 1:24 p.m.(11/20/1008 AR)
Intentions and outcomes are for Disciples and Philosophers. In truth what matters is what you can live with... What you are willing to tell your family and your people. If you cannot bring yourself to speak of your intentions or what outcome they brought you have erred. If you cannot live with what you have wrought or the reason behind such, than you have erred.
[in a slightly different slant, the writing clearly at a different angle from the original script]
Fools will be fools and the prideful will be arrogant. The blindness to error does not preclude the truth of wrong deed or misguided intent.
Written By Pasquale
May 31, 2018, 1:11 p.m.(11/20/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Monique
Outcomes, of course, are paramount. By itself, minus action and resolve to see it through, intent means nothing.
Yet that’s an over-simplification, and often an excuse for personal indulgence or dishonorable conduct. A castle built on a poorly-laid foundation will inevitably crumble, and intention is part of that foundation. How one does a thing, and why, shapes what the thing becomes, and what one is at the end of it.
Written By Norwood
May 31, 2018, 1:09 p.m.(11/20/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Monique
Without the proper intentions, no outcome will ever be worth price paid.
Written By Aleksei
May 31, 2018, 1:08 p.m.(11/20/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Monique
Written By Ariella
May 31, 2018, 12:12 p.m.(11/20/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Monique
Any other ancient quandaries I can resolve before lunch today?
Written By Monique
May 31, 2018, 12:04 p.m.(11/20/1008 AR)
A question I've been pondering of late. Deep thoughts, and I'm not sure whether I've got an answer.
Written By Tikva
May 31, 2018, 11:55 a.m.(11/20/1008 AR)
Please note that the scholars may take some time preparing your journal for others to read.