Today I hung out with Willow. For part of the day we practiced magic together. The two of us worked together to try to make a small self-sustaining ecosystem, and made almost no progress. Neither of us knew what we were doing so we were mostly just throwing ideas around and hoping something would work, now we’re left with dozens of ideas that don’t work, and none that do. And the best part is neither of us knows what we were doing wrong.

After Willow inevitably got bored of that we decided to play a game. After brainstorming for a bit we came up with this. I would grow a puppet made of wood and put it a certain distance away from Willow, then I would have it try to move up and touch her. During this she wasn’t allowed to move and could only use magic to prevent it from reaching her. Obviously, the scale of the magic she was allowed to use was restricted, a fire tornado in the middle of a wooded area is not a good idea, but she could do anything from strike it with electricity to blowing it away to buy time. When it was no longer functional she won, when it touched her I won.

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For the first ten matches she won every time, I just couldn’t control the puppet very well. But on the eleventh match I managed to barely get a victory, everything below the shoulder could still move alright, so it counted. She seemed to really enjoy herself so we kept going for about a hundred matches, taking a break after most of them for her to recover mana. By around match seventy I was managing to win about half of them, it’s amazing what some competition can do for improvement. My control was still pretty clunky, but it was a lot better than my starting point.

At one point Par noticed what we were doing and came over to watch, after we stopped he came up to talk to me. He said that he would be willing to have his goblins spar against my puppets, said something about me being able to protect myself better? Anyway, I don’t care about that, that's why I have Par around, but that does sound fun, like a game.

Willow decided to sleep with me tonight, she’s already asleep. Anyway, Good Night Diary.