Written By Aurora
Feb. 5, 2017, 7:47 p.m.(11/10/1005 AR)
I created a lovely seasilk gown and matching slippers for this events. I was pleased with how they turned out, and even more so that they were enjoyed by others. Anything to continue to keep my name out there.
Written By Aurora
Jan. 22, 2017, 8:41 p.m.(9/25/1005 AR)
Relationship Note on Theodoric
I don't trust him, I dont know what he wants, and I don't know what he thinks I can do for him. That being said, we do seem to share common goals.
Written By Aurora
Jan. 22, 2017, 8:32 p.m.(9/25/1005 AR)
A promise is only a promise as long as both parties are available to accept and keep it. You can promise the world, and sometimes people do in a moment of passion or love or need, without ever intending to keep it. You can be promised the world, but not be available to accept it even should you wish to with all you are. You can not fault someone for promising the world to someone else when you allow the world to slip through your fingers, and you can't expect those who hold the world to wait forever for you to reach out and take it.
Written By Aurora
Jan. 12, 2017, 11:50 a.m.(8/22/1005 AR)
I have been given a promotion in the Mummers. I have decided that my new title shall be 'Assistant Director of Operations'. It sounds important, doesn't it? Much more important than just 'assistant'. Ill have to have business cards made.
Written By Aurora
Jan. 4, 2017, 9:43 p.m.(7/27/1005 AR)
I am starting to understand why people run away to live in the middle of nowhere. People suck.
Written By Aurora
Dec. 31, 2016, 5:30 a.m.(7/13/1005 AR)
After most had left, I said my real goodbyes, with just the family about. While yes, he was all of those things I mentioned during the memorial, he was all of the rest of the things I said he was after. Loyal, honest, brave.
He had the same focus for everything in life, whether work or people. When he stared at you, he was not simply looking but he saw you, you knew you were everything to him in that moment. I will miss being someone's everything. Silas was right though. Life will move forward whether I wish it to or not, and I can't allow it to move on without me. It is not a forgiving thing and I will be crushed beneath the weight of trying to hold all the slipping pieces together. It is an impossible task. Goodbye Horatio, I will think of you often, and fondly, but I must let you go.
He had the same focus for everything in life, whether work or people. When he stared at you, he was not simply looking but he saw you, you knew you were everything to him in that moment. I will miss being someone's everything. Silas was right though. Life will move forward whether I wish it to or not, and I can't allow it to move on without me. It is not a forgiving thing and I will be crushed beneath the weight of trying to hold all the slipping pieces together. It is an impossible task. Goodbye Horatio, I will think of you often, and fondly, but I must let you go.
Written By Aurora
Dec. 25, 2016, 9:32 p.m.(6/25/1005 AR)
Relationship Note on Valery
Valery is someone employed by the Nightgold family. She is currently my very favorite alchemist as my old favorite alchemist now fits in a jar. No, that is not in poor taste, Horatio would have been quite amused by my joke. Anyway, back to Valery. She makes wonderful tea, and I find that she is quite enjoyable company when I am in the mood for company.
Written By Aurora
Dec. 21, 2016, 7:56 a.m.(6/11/1005 AR)
We all mourn in different ways. Some people take up the sword and charge into battle, letting their grief drive their blades home. This leads to more mourning.
Some hole themselves up, work on themselves in silence, strengthening each piece as the moments go by. This leads to a hardening which some people never return from.
Some throw themselves into their duties, everyday life. Almost as if nothing happened at all. The continue to work, continue to smile, continue to be themselves. Some find that they are hallowed shells, never allowing themselves to feel the pain losing someone brings. They never learn how, and then never move on truly.
My only hope for you, those who fault one for which path they choose to feel grief is that you are so loved, so cherished, and so missed that those who mourn for you do so as strongly as the very people you tell to get over it.
Some hole themselves up, work on themselves in silence, strengthening each piece as the moments go by. This leads to a hardening which some people never return from.
Some throw themselves into their duties, everyday life. Almost as if nothing happened at all. The continue to work, continue to smile, continue to be themselves. Some find that they are hallowed shells, never allowing themselves to feel the pain losing someone brings. They never learn how, and then never move on truly.
My only hope for you, those who fault one for which path they choose to feel grief is that you are so loved, so cherished, and so missed that those who mourn for you do so as strongly as the very people you tell to get over it.
Written By Aurora
Dec. 20, 2016, 7:13 a.m.(6/8/1005 AR)
I woke up to missives waiting for me at the bar of the Unkindness, three. The first one was about business. The second one was sympathy, which I did not understand. The third was from the Merciers. I read it once, then again, and I have read this single piece of paper more times than I have ever read anything in my entire life. Each word has been memorized, each indent of the writing's instrument, each stop and start as if the writer did not know what he wished to say next, or how he was going to soften the blow of the next word to come. I am not sure when I started crying, I did not feel the tears begin to fall, only see them drop on that damned page. I have never wished to preserve and destroy something so badly at the same time then this damned page.
This was not how this was meant to be, Horatio, not how the play was scripted. You have left me to awkwardly stand on the sidelines alone. It seems like even you lie.
I love you.
This was not how this was meant to be, Horatio, not how the play was scripted. You have left me to awkwardly stand on the sidelines alone. It seems like even you lie.
I love you.
Written By Aurora
Dec. 18, 2016, 7:22 p.m.(6/4/1005 AR)
I have found allies in the strangest of places, with the strangest of people. I am working hard to see that the Mummers are once again the focal point of the city's entertainment, but there is still much to be done and many people I need to speak with. You would think nobles would be falling out of the sky for the chance to have their name on the marquee in big bold letters showing who is to thank for the latest production.
Written By Aurora
Dec. 11, 2016, 10:24 p.m.(5/11/1005 AR)
Relationship Note on Sigurd
There is something wrong with this man. I have yet to figure it out, but I'm sure there something.
Written By Aurora
Dec. 4, 2016, 8:49 p.m.(4/18/1005 AR)
I have fallen back into my old routine. It seems as if I am doing nothing but working lately, and I was doing so well at being social too! Perhaps I am not cut out for it as I hoped. In the end, that might be for the best. I am going to be venturing into uncharted territory soon, dangerous I've been told.
Written By Aurora
Nov. 27, 2016, 4:19 p.m.(3/24/1005 AR)
Relationship Note on Costas
This sailor with poor choice making skills seems nice enough. He let me make him a cloak, and in return he promised me a gift. I am not sure if the small pretty red vial he gave me was the gift or if it was a birthday present, and I am still owed a gift? Either way, I look forward to speaking with him in the future.
Written By Aurora
Nov. 20, 2016, 8:02 p.m.(3/4/1005 AR)
I admit, I was never overly concerned with the crafter's guild. I understand that it is important, but I had never really considered myself to be any sort of importance within it. I had my job in the theater, that was enough for me. That being said, I am concerned for the future of the guild and what that means for those in it. I suppose time will tell, but it does not look good on any of us when there is public arguments and call for duels.
Written By Aurora
Nov. 8, 2016, 6:48 a.m.(1/22/1005 AR)
Are the lives of the nobility so boring, lacking any excitement or purpose, that they have all the time in the world to do all in their power to ruin the lives of those beneath their station?
I feel sorry for those who do not have goals or desires. I feel sorry for those who feel that they have a right to destroy rather than the duty to nourish. I feel sorry.
This city is so fucked if these are the people that are responsible for its well being, may the Gods help us.
I feel sorry for those who do not have goals or desires. I feel sorry for those who feel that they have a right to destroy rather than the duty to nourish. I feel sorry.
This city is so fucked if these are the people that are responsible for its well being, may the Gods help us.
Written By Aurora
Nov. 7, 2016, 4:29 p.m.(1/21/1005 AR)
Relationship Note on Horatio
Much has changed since my first meeting with Horatio. Time spent over shared meals, quiet evenings, and discovering hobbies and interests have endeared him to me unlike any I have ever met before. He is harsh, blunt, and always unfailingly honest which is okay. I find that he has grown on me, and I am sure he would find this appropriate, like a fungus or mold in which I am unable to scrap off as easily as it grew. Whether it flourishes or withers still remains to be seen, but I will enjoy the beauty of it until the curtain closes on the final act.
Written By Aurora
Nov. 6, 2016, 9:10 p.m.(1/18/1005 AR)
Relationship Note on Natalia
I have only met the Princess once, though we had exchanged missives back and forth before that. I am not certain she likes me very much. I think I am ok with this, if it turns out she does not. In any case, she seems like a wonderful actress, able to look relaxed one minute and cold the next, void of any emotion. Horatio has more interaction with her than I do, she usually deals with my assistants when she comes by the shop.
Written By Aurora
Oct. 30, 2016, 10:44 p.m.(12/25/1004 AR)
Relationship Note on Jareth
Jareth is an interesting man. One of the actors that performs regularly, and a member of the Mummers, I deal with him often enough. He is charming and handsome if you are into the actor thing. I think I see him differently than most, perhaps because we are around one another so often, that I am not as susceptible to his ways as most other women are.
Written By Aurora
Oct. 27, 2016, 8:20 p.m.(12/16/1004 AR)
Much like Acacia, tea is not my thing. I was warned though that I was forbidden from spiking any tea there with whiskey even though I did come prepared to do so when the host's attention was diverted away. I was good and tasted the tea as it was intended...with a lot of honey. The iced tea was my favorite, and I was pleased when Sir Silas sent me a sample of the tea to bring home.
Even though my date for the evening did not smile at me once (though he did smile at others), he did show up which I suppose is half the battle. I forgot all the talking points I had prepared, but I did learn that he wishes to feed me to his large snake. Romantic, isn't he?
...no that is not a euphemism, it is a real snake.
Even though my date for the evening did not smile at me once (though he did smile at others), he did show up which I suppose is half the battle. I forgot all the talking points I had prepared, but I did learn that he wishes to feed me to his large snake. Romantic, isn't he?
...no that is not a euphemism, it is a real snake.
Written By Aurora
Oct. 23, 2016, 9:06 p.m.(12/4/1004 AR)
Relationship Note on Horatio
I do not know this man well, but there will be time in the future to fix this. If I decide to. I have been given talking points for small talk, though unfortunately the tea party has been postponed and I will have to wait to use them.
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