Day 41
It was a slow day today. I spent most of it feeding the tree with the infant sprite growing inside. Nothing noticeable changed today, but I feel like at this rate something will change tomorrow, or if I don’t feed it tomorrow, the day after. I don’t know what, but I know something will change.
Other than that I ate some of the berries. Mest asked if he could take a bunch of them. I saw no reason to refuse him so I accepted. He ended up putting them in these glass jars, some full of brine, some not. When I asked him what he was doing he said he was making pickles and wine, and that it should take about a month to finish, around a week if he puts most of his energy towards it.
This morning Tiddol went off and started painting on a canvas without saying anything. I wonder what she is painting, she won’t let me see or tell me.
I am running out of paper so I am going to have to end this here. I need to make some more tomorrow.
Day 42
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Today I made paper. It isn’t a difficult task, all I really have to do is provide a tree with mana and ask for it, but it is a long one. The upside to it is that it doesn’t take much more time to produce two sheets than it does one, so mass producing it is preferable. Of course, other than a small startup cost it takes about the same amount of mana for each sheet. Using about half my mana when I first started this diary made a little more than a month’s worth of paper, and my mana pool is a little bigger since then, by about a tenth. It took me from early morning too early evening to make about a month and a half worth of paper.
I didn’t eat much today as I couldn’t break concentration or I end up with unusable sheets, though I did eat some berries after I finished.
It looks like Tiddol is going to be finished with her painting tomorrow morning, I’m not going to look at it till it’s done.
Before heading turning in today Mest approached me and asked if there was anything I wanted them to pick up, before subtly mentioning paper. I felt like punching him in the face for not bringing it up sooner, I don’t exactly enjoy doing essentially nothing for an entire day. Ultimately I decided to leave it up to him, I don’t exactly know much about what would be available in a city. The simple idea of so many creatures in one area living together is so alien to me, I’m half convinced it’s a hoax.
Anyway. It’s time for sleep, so goodnight diary.