Dear Diary,

I remembered names from people in groups 1 and 3! Duh! I was in a party with Xero from Admin 1’s group, and Caves from Admin 3’s group, back on Cycle 23.

In my defense, that was the cycle with the drugged cake, so I was distracted for a lot of it. Still, I shouldn’t have forgotten their names. That was rude of me.

Can it be rude to forget something? I mean, forgetting isn’t really an action taken, it’s an accident. So can an accident be rude?

Eh, it probably depends on the accident.

Anyways, people are getting more excited the further down the dungeon we get. Everyone knows this is the last cycle to fight, or to not fight. They’re trying to make it memorable. It’s fun.

Some people got turned into changelings, and they change to look like us. It’s… Well, ok, it’s kinda creepy, but in a cool way. The first time someone changed into me, I thought I was going insane or dreaming or something.

Whenever someone tries to look like Y, they get his eyes wrong. I guess heterochromia is changeling-proof. Good to know? I don’t know what I’ll do with that information, but I have it now.

Maybe at some point in the future of the world, changelings will try to take over, and the only way to know who’s really who they say they are will be by magically changing the color of one eye. Or something.

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My imagination has been going wild this cycle. There’s just so much I don’t know, and I can’t wait to find out!

I kinda want to write the Admin with another list of questions, like where we’ll live, and what it’ll be like. But I’m sure he has lots of things to do, and will tell me to be patient. I can be patient.

I’m not very good at being patient. Waiting is not my strong suit. My strong suit is being friends with everyone! Even when we’re being attacked, it’s like a happy attacking. It’s more fun than serious. Which is good!

I wonder if I’ll be put in a city. If I am, then I’ll be friends with everyone in the whole city! However many thousands of people there are, I’ll befriend them! And their pets!

I hope there are magical creatures, and we can get magical pets. I don’t know what type of magical pet, but any kind would be cool. Avi probably has lots of ideas and opinions on what kinds of pets we’ll have. I’ll leave that up to him.

Oh, Kimi tried figuring out how long we’ve been in the dungeons. She says her estimation is, give or take, about six years. Which is kinda wild to think about. I mean, yeah, it feels like we’ve been here literally forever, but…

I don’t know. It both feels like it should be longer, but it also feels like six years is a really long time. I feel old now. I mean, I don’t think I look any older, but maybe I do?

…I’ve had the same haircut for six years. That seems boring.

A part of me wonders what my life would be like if I hadn’t died. If I’d never come here. But if I hadn’t, I wouldn’t have Avi. Probably. Who knows, maybe we were destined to meet and be soulmates regardless of what planet we’re on.

Either way, I’m glad I have him now.

Goodnight, Dungeon!

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