Day 44

Today Tiddol’s party left for the city, saying they would pick me up something good. I was left alone with Parius and his tribe, which seemed to have tripled in size over the last several days. When I asked about that he said some other wild goblins have filtered in and joined the tribe.

I spent most of the day feeding the unborn sprite. I felt constantly that something was going to change very soon. And after lunch, it did. The tree developed a crack in it going from the base to the tip, with the widest point being the width of my palm, and slowly growing. At this point i could no longer feed it, but the infant sprite was growing much faster. If i were to guess it would be ready to be born in around a day. I’m not sure if this makes me a mother, a sister, a cousin, or something else entirely.

Par offered to have his goblins build me a house to live in. I rejected his offer saying I would prefer to sleep in out in the open. He then offered me a blanket made of pelts from a beast with exceptionally soft fur, and it felt amazing against my skin, I’ve never slept naked before but now I’m tempted. He also offered a bed, and though it is a nice bed, it isn’t as great as the blanket.

Today had its share of excitement and small pleasures, and now I think I'm going to try out a couple of those small pleasures, so goodnight diary.

Day 45

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Today I woke up feeling incredibly refreshed,  Par's gifts from yesterday really showed through.

I decided to try cooking with Par for breakfast. It turned out a little better than last time,  but still not very good. The goblins ate it up just the same.

For most of the day I played around with magic. mostly just feeding plants in different ways to see how they would react. I managed to get some interesting results.

I tried taking a seed and feeding it while it remained in my palm,  it sprouted a flower that quickly withered when I stopped feeding it. I remembered what Mest said about desire and this inspired me to try some things differently.

I tried, successfully,  to have the flower wrap around my wrist as a bracelet. It was pretty,  and withered away the moment I stopped feeding it.

I spent most of the day doing little experiments like this,  stopping only to eat and to let my mana replenish.

My most successful experiment was when I tried to wrap it around my body. I had already learned quite a bit that I put into practice there. The end result was stunning,  I watched as I was covered from head to toe in a second skin of flowering bark, at the end i felt pricks of pain all over my body,  but that quickly passed. It left me feeling starving,  a sign I had used up too much mana.

After it was done growing I slowly felt less hungry,  it seemed the the flower was nourishing me now. It reminded me of the way the plants of my grove gave me mana,  but much more direct,  more intimate I suppose.

After a while i asked it too leave my body,  it complied,  sinking into the dirt before becoming a flowering sapling tree. I could have sworn I got that seed from a flower.

It took a light breeze for me to realize  the plant left me naked,  I'm assuming it consumed my clothes while growing.

O verall it was an interesting day, I definitly learned a lot.  Hopefully I'll be able to put some of it too use, but for now,  goodnight.