Tiddol left this morning. As soon as she woke up, she packed her bags and brought her assassin turned slave with her to the edge of my forest. After saying goodbye to me she started walking away, towards where Par and his soldiers are. It was a somber goodbye.

I was kind of expecting her to leave. It will be a little more lonely without her, but I certainly wasn't about to try and stop her from leaving to join Par. She's been a little down recently, this should help with that, I hope.

Emotionally I don't like that she left, but logically I know that I shouldn't try to do anything about it. If it weren't for this barrier I could try to join them on the front lines.

Speaking of that barrier, there has been some development regarding it. Apparently it works by preventing dungeons from expanding across it, which effectively keeps me out. However, it also opens up a potential way around it. If I can get a piece of my dungeon into the barrier then I would be able to expand uninhibited. Just growing plants at the border does not work, whatever magic prevents me from expanding my dungeon also prevents me from growing any plants on the other side, and any plants someone else grows does not count as being part of my dungeon or my forest.

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I'm not sure how I would be able to get onto the other side of the barrier, but at least I know that if I manage to do so then I will no longer have any issues with it.

As for what I actually did today, I continued to refine my body. I got my energy circulation system part of my body up to an acceptable level and have started working on my vocal cords. That is mostly because having to manually use singing grass to make sound every time I want to talk is annoying. By the end of the day it became much easier to speak and my voice sounded a lot better, at least in my opinion anyway.

Considering how slowly my current methodology is going I am probably going to change up how I approach this project starting tomorrow. Probably focus more on the broad strokes than on small pieces like my voice.

According to the scholars my species would be categorized as a kind of shapeshifter, as I technically have no set anatomy. I would also be the first shape shifting plant on record, and given the lack of mobile plants in dungeons before I made the Ents, probably the first ever. There aren't very many shapeshifters in this part of the world either, though apparently one of the scholars is one.

Other than that I spent my downtime alone, thinking to myself. A lot has happened recently, between the disease that has only recently been completely eradicated, my apprentices graduating, and my own transition to a plant. Not all of it has been bad, but I would personally love it if everything was quiet for a little while.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.