I think that in a couple days I will leave teaching healing up to the Ents, a couple of them are now better than I am, and that’s when you ignore things like raw magical power and other things like that. My pride would be hurt if I hadn’t made them myself, I might not be the best healer here anymore, but I did make them.

The question is what to work on next. If I am still wanting to focus on preparing to defend my grove I should probably focus on my personal fighting ability. I can do this a couple ways, the first would be to improve my own armour, I have several ways I could achieve this. The second would be to work on making some kind of weapon, only problem is last time I made a weapon for myself I almost cut myself in half, I definitely do not have the kind of skill required to use one of the weapons I can create without hurting myself, I would need some kind of stand-in for myself.

Which brings me to the third option. I could design a puppet, similar to the Ents but without injecting a piece of my soul into it, that I could control during the fighting. This is the one that I think will have the most effects, but it is also the one I am most wary of. I remember a while ago, around when I made the Ents, creating much cruder puppets that I could control in sparring matches. I enjoyed it, a lot, but it left me in a bad mental state. It wasn’t uncomfortable or dangerous to myself, not in a real sense, but it turned my thoughts more violent during the rest of my time when I wasn’t fighting.

I am worried about actually learning to fight through a puppet, as I am definitely not going to learn to fight with my own body, but ultimately I think that is what I will go with. Well, that and making an amazing sword. It has the most potential for my purposes, and I wouldn’t be myself if I shied away from that.

If I am not trying to prepare to defend my grove then I should probably try to find a way to help Thes out. Drowsy clover variants won’t work, he’s already immune, Dead Tulip will just knock him out, doing nothing to alleviate the problem, I might be able to do something with Astrie or Spell wood but what? I have already tried to create something that could drain away his rage, but emotions are definitely not magical in nature. As a result, neither of those plants can directly interact with anything that matters so I would need a more creative solution, and I don’t have a creative solution. And as for Glovine and Singing Grass, I have already made him something there to help out in his meditation. Fate has given me no answers.

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The only thing there that I could think of is making something to restrain Thes with Ironwood, which I don’t have the money for. It is much more expensive than the next most expensive plant I’ve bought so far, and there isn’t a lesser variant, at least not one I can find. for all intents and purposes, it is the lesser variant. I could try asking Mest, but I don’t think he has access to that kind of money. The issue is not the scarcity of the plant but rather the distance, it is incredibly common, where Tiddol’s parents live. It would have to be teleported in from halfway around the world, which causes stress on living creatures, which means I have to have more of it teleported in to get a usable sample, which means more space taken up, which makes it more expensive. I could have it teleported to me within two weeks, but I can’t pay someone enough to do it for me. Maybe I could take advantage of Mest’s contacts to get a hold of some, but I doubt it. I’ll ask tomorrow and make sure to burn Fate while I ask, maybe I’ll get lucky and some Iron Wood will fall out of the sky onto my lap, it wouldn’t be the first time I’ve gotten lucky like that.

Now that I think about it, Iron Wood would also be perfect for making puppets too. So even more reason to get a hold of it.

You know what, I’m going to ask right now. I have Fate to burn and I need it sooner rather than later.

He said he will talk to some members of his order, a couple of them have easy access to teleportation circles that they might let us use.

Other than that I talked to Talus. It was light and casual and we both avoided heavier topics, so it’s hard to know where I stand with her. I have never been good with this whole social thing, I’m hopeful though.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.