Dear Diary,

It’s a good thing the cycle reset just goes “poof” and we’re on Floor 1, cuz right now asking me politely to go wouldn’t work.

Well, ok, it isn’t really “poof”. It’s more a “shimmer shimmer woosh” type thing. The Admin’s magic color is gold, so the magic that takes us back to Floor 1 is all gold and sparkly.

Anyways, yeah, I like being home. Home is good.

At some point this cycle, Via learned gender-swap potions exist, and took one. So she’s back to being Avi. The potion made him taller by like six inches. I guess it thinks guys shouldn’t be 5’2 or something. Well, 5’2 without the ears. Cat ears automatically add like four inches to everyone’s height, so we don’t count them. But Avi is taller than Y, which just feels odd. To me. Y doesn’t mind.

I… finally got to have that Important Conversation with Avi. About stuff. Which is good. Good communication is very adult-like and mature. Took a couple days to get around to it, but the conversation did happen. And, basically, yeah we’re a Thing now. We haven’t told anyone, but I think everyone knows. It’s not like we’ve been subtle these past two days.

For some reason, I don’t want to write about it. I mean, I know this is my diary, and it’s private, but I don’t want to write about Avi. It’s… private in a different way. What we say and do stays between me and him, and shouldn’t be written down for some potential future reader to see. Even if there never is any future reader. If I get amnesia and this diary is my only way to remember stuff, then sorry future me.

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Soooo yeah, that happened, and all is well.

In other news, things are not well between Lilly and Staab. They haven’t broken up (yet), but they’ve been arguing a lot and Staab is staying at the inn now. I think Lilly got jealous of Kimi and Y’s relationship, and tried to get Staab to copy them, but Staab was happy with how they were and wasn’t ready to change anything. Like, they were fine not being engaged until Y asked Kimi to marry him, then suddenly Lilly wanted to be engaged, too. Then everyone forgot about it until last cycle, when Kimi was like “oh yeah”, and they were married like a week later. And suddenly Lilly wanted a wedding, too.

Which in a way I get. But it’s dumb. I mean, Kimi and Y are both two steps away from full supervillain status. They get each other on a level no one else ever could, mostly because no one else is insane enough to think “how hard would it be to remove all the oxygen from a floor” and then try. And succeed.

Meanwhile, Staab and Lilly are both… normal. Not that normal really exists, but if it did, they’d both fit right in. Two normal people trying to copy the two most insane people in the dungeon just won’t ever end well.

I think Lilly will figure that out soon. Hopefully. Or else Staab will give in, which would be less good.

It’s all drama, and I don’t like drama.

But I don’t have to deal with it! Instead, I get to be with Avi.

Goodnight, Dungeon!

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