24th Light beneath the tenth Moon

3761 Cycles beyond the Dark

722 Years after the Repentance

Entry: 1/011

Dear self,

The pony kid was generous enough to actually come while the shop was open today. Rashplume had arrived in order to “observe” my work after patrolling around the area for the Quislings and made the poor boy tremble in discomfort. The boy’s little sister had decided to tag along since no one had known about his enchanted necklace before yesterday, since he managed to pay for it out of his own pocket somehow.

The little girl was jealous and demanded to play with the grounding charm as well, but I cheerily informed her that the item was specifically bonded to its owner’s spirit and was useless to anyone else. As for its apparent lack of function, the boy had explained that I hadn’t yet finished the job with me keeping a straight face in the background. I do not know what Axl made of what should be blatant deception to his eyes but the owl was happy to watch in silence.

Adding the foci was easy. I thought using a radiance foci would be the most useful so I prepared a simple working using Levinspark as a base and anchored it to the grounding matrix in the necklace. Overall, I took a limited stabilization charm and turned it into a decent instrument to cast cantrips with. Now all that’s left is to allow the thing to attune to its master overnight and have the boy come back in the morning to have the final seal applied. He’ll be flinging out motes of light and making luminous images before the year is out and none the wiser to why he had the thing made in the first place. It’ll even teach him to control his energies better so that he wouldn’t need it eventually.

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After dealing with the children I went about other things with Axl shadowing me. Since he was here anyway I asked him about the cleansing formation I had been compelled to make. As far as he can tell it is used to prevent scrying and passive sensing from a specific spiritual entity. It is likely that the Quislings intend it as a way of hiding from a spirit that they knew would be after them if it sensed them. We have no idea which spirit it might be protecting against though.

We set off into the woods to track down the critter that’s been roaming around here. I brought a pixie along to help us locate the thing. Since it was likely attuned to fiery elements I prepared a smothering spell to subdue it should we find it.

We followed an invisible trail with the guidance of the pixie, and we passed by another path of ravaged plants with a smattering of embers strewn around. Axl collected the particles with some imterest and went on a rant about the ambient aspects and the ecological effects of rival elementals with too much proximity, nothing I didn’t know before.

The critter was some form of lizard large enough to leap at me.I tried to approach it cautiously but it sensed me through my concealing glamours and bolted. It spewed a hand full of irritating sparks right into my face and nearly blinded me. I was about to smite it with the smothering spell when Axl tackled me to the ground and let the thing escape.

It turns out that not only was the critter not an actual monster, but in was in fact an endangered creature from some exotic region in the mainland. Axl said it was a Darcinderaht, a fiery lizard that likes to eat ash and prefers arid climates. I might have hurt it with my smothering charm so now we have to figure out a way to capture it safely and find out how it ended up displaced all the way from its distant home to our lovely island.

Hope we fare well.

Regards,

Me.

~*M*~