Today I continued to work on refining Astrie. Mest has put all of his efforts into helping me with this project, and he is definitely helpful. The actual grunt work isn’t any easier with his help, but testing and knowing what to test for has become drastically easier. On top of helping me refine the Astrie, I am learning a lot about magic, though almost all of it requires external mana manipulation so it might be a very long time before I put any of it to use outside of this project. With his help, I think I can do this in half the time it would have taken me otherwise.

I felt the twins kick today, I didn’t even know babies did that. It was really surreal for me, there is a difference between knowing and seeing evidence of something as amazing as life growing inside someone, it is another thing entirely to feel it with your own hands. I can’t wait to meet the children.

The new Ents are always together, much like how Kaire and lulem are almost always together. The only way I can think to accurately describe them all is plant, because any other descriptor wouldn’t work for all of them. All of them have their own personality, and all of them are very distinctly their own person. I think that is fascinating, on a structural level all of them are identical, excluding the obvious differences between sexes. On top of that, they have all had basically the exact same life experiences in these last couple days as well. But what is really interesting is the fact that all of them seem to have kept some memories from their previous life, I wonder why Kaire and Lulem didn’t.

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Most of them can only remember general ideas, but there are a couple that remember more, three of them to be exact. The first remembers parts of his life that revolve around smithing, He remembers everything about his past life that has to do with smithing, from the master smith that trained him up until the last blade he ever forged, but he can’t remember anything else. The second remembers much about her family and her friends, and a little about the world, enough to know that this isn’t the world of her past life. She is very solemn and sad, she can remember very clearly the face of a mother she doesn’t have, the face of a lover that she will never meet again, and the faces of friends she will never again laugh and play with. I felt like I could connect with her more than the others, like I could understand her better, it made me want to comfort the child. That isn’t something I feel very often.

The last Ent to hold onto a significant chunk of their memories from their last life took it to the extreme, they remembered almost everything, something only recorded a handful of times. They were a mage in their last life, not a particularly powerful one, but enough to feed a small family. He spent his life doing what he described as grunt work for more successful mages. He doesn’t know a lot about magic, but he knows way more than most others his age do, this should give him a leg up. I am expecting great things from this child.

It was a full day today, I like days like this. The only real negative about today was the snow, but I have to learn to live with that, I am nowhere near powerful enough to change the seasons.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.