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Written By Ryhalt

Feb. 9, 2021, 11:34 p.m.(11/27/1014 AR)

Thinking once more of hiring an investigator or a team of them, I can barely think some days with Ryland's fussing. I should have put the nursery on the other side of the house!

Written By Ryhalt

Feb. 4, 2021, 10:17 p.m.(11/17/1014 AR)

Sometimes I think back to those days and am overcome with an insatiable itch to adventure. One that is not designed at every moment for safety. That is not an adventure, that is a scheduled tour. Perhaps there will be a chance this year.

Written By Ryhalt

Jan. 29, 2021, 8:12 p.m.(11/5/1014 AR)

While I am told that tweed is not made of bee legs because that'd lead to the death of all bees, I am going to have to affirm this for myself.

Now to find someone who can manipulate the material...

Written By Ryhalt

Jan. 3, 2021, 9:01 p.m.(9/9/1014 AR)

Relationship Note on Alis

Slavers in the Oathlands? Of course, I am going to help remove them however I am able.

Written By Ryhalt

Dec. 29, 2020, 2:05 p.m.(8/26/1014 AR)

Relationship Note on Norah

Marquessa Norah has become my protege. I look forward to a most profitable and productive partnership!

Written By Ryhalt

Dec. 27, 2020, 4:49 a.m.(8/21/1014 AR)

I swear, if I read one more ledger of provisions I am boycotting this death by boredom and jumping on a ship bound for the Saffron Chains!

Written By Ryhalt

Dec. 10, 2020, 10:52 p.m.(7/17/1014 AR)

Relationship Note on Mabelle

I'm declining all invitations from you until you learn what a proper hunt is. Whoever Duke Cristoph finds to teach you will have their hands full. I see high turnover rate from despair.

Also, your baker is the evil one. He enjoyed that trick entirely too much.

Written By Ryhalt

Dec. 9, 2020, 10 p.m.(7/15/1014 AR)

Relationship Note on Clover

So happy that Clover and our new son, Ryland, are well. It's been such a difficult pregnancy, I am relieved.

It wasn't twins!!

Written By Ryhalt

Nov. 15, 2020, 9:14 p.m.(5/22/1014 AR)

I gained deeper insight into the weakness clutching pearls has caused. When you don't share a story it has no power. I pray it is not too late.

Written By Ryhalt

Nov. 7, 2020, 3:23 a.m.(5/5/1014 AR)

I find myself in prayer more often of late. Both for the war and for a personal decision I must make. My heart remains uneasy.

Written By Ryhalt

Oct. 25, 2020, 9:47 p.m.(4/8/1014 AR)

Sometimes it feels as the more I learn, the more I find out how little I know about things I ought to know. Even worse, sometimes that seems a both a good and horrible idea. I could employ ten scribes and still have so much left to learn. Perhaps I ought to find a scholarly protege first.

Written By Ryhalt

Oct. 17, 2020, 9:51 p.m.(3/20/1014 AR)

The Laurent Winter Wonderland was a fun time. A year round sled mountain should be a feature of every garden.

Plus, I almost got challenged to a duel over unadvised bee puns and revealing the truth of velvet being literal bee fur! A buzzing good time!

Written By Ryhalt

Sept. 13, 2020, 10:18 p.m.(1/8/1014 AR)

Decorating the new nursery in a coffee design is becoming increasingly attractive. Now to make it so Clover doesn't notice...

Written By Ryhalt

Aug. 30, 2020, 10:20 p.m.(12/8/1013 AR)

The Ashford's First Annual Bovine Grand Prix was as hilarious as I expected. Next time: children riders!

Written By Ryhalt

July 19, 2020, 1:13 a.m.(9/7/1013 AR)

Relationship Note on Clover

She's safe!

It is such an empowering reassurance to have her at my side once more.

Written By Ryhalt

June 28, 2020, 10:01 p.m.(7/22/1013 AR)

Relationship Note on Mabelle

But, bee fur is so much more intriguing than the truth of how velvet is made!

Written By Ryhalt

June 23, 2020, 11:04 p.m.(7/13/1013 AR)

I am quite pleased of word out of Westrock from my steward that the venture to build a village for recent refugees and freed thralls and slaves that wished to go so far was quite a success. Oh, there was the typical grumbling about letting in foreign cultures and all that, but however the impending war comes out, we will be seeing more people from distant lands in the Compact. Not all foreign ways of doing things are bad and we all can stand to learn about another culture, if it makes our lives better. It isn't as if I believe we should adopt all their ways and beliefs above ours. Though, I am sure that is the fear.

Written By Ryhalt

May 31, 2020, 4:06 a.m.(5/21/1013 AR)

Relationship Note on Mabelle

Sailing cupcakes and attack dogs. No one saw it coming.

Or, was all that a drunken hallucination?

Regardless, another sweet birthday for Lady Mabelle.

Written By Ryhalt

May 2, 2020, 1:14 a.m.(3/19/1013 AR)

I enjoyed myself quite well at this year's Taste of Arx. Though I wasn't able to go to every ward, I was able to visit more than last year, which is an improvement.

Talking of improvements, I think it is time to do that thing my sister encouraged me to do. It's come up in recent conversation, so good time to get planning. Besides, the whirlpool business leads me to believe I can no longer sleep on it.

The market prices perplex me. The port isn't the *only* way to get into Arx. Way to capitalize on fear, I suppose.

Alas, air is still available to all. No price change there.

I kid, I kid!

-Mostly-.

Written By Ryhalt

April 21, 2020, 3:23 a.m.(2/25/1013 AR)

Between war and what sounds like blood sacrifices, the matter of a landslide that reportedly harmed no one seems insignificant. After the Taste of Arx has run its course, I think I may go out to Westrock and see for myself. I have not had an adventure all year.

Besides, I need to make sure to secure the coffee trees against crazy, pyromaniac business partners and vassals! Just in case. I mean, I did find out that there are such things as invisible horses that kill people with daggers in their teeth.

I just heard a whinny, what was I supposed to do...

Sod it, running now!

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