This morning I opened my eyes with a striking yet familiar hangover headache, and found myself to have become a dad to a whopping six hundred spirits overnight. I woke up in my sleeping bag, surrounded by them. Some were lying around me, keeping me warm. Most were walking around on the farm, doing farm work.

They are the spirits of my nuts. I realized it when I looked around and saw that the spirits were basically shaped like nuts with two legs and divided into three distinct colors: blue, red, and yellow.

It seemed like letting the latest batch grow twice their expected harvesting schedule turned my nuts into spirits—which made my predictions from a few days ago completely off. It also seemed like they were very considerate, as the patches they came from were refilled with new nut seeds.

All day, I saw… The blue spirits spraying my plants, and filling my bath. The red spirits reheating my eternal stew, filling my smokehouse with smoke, and heating my bath. The yellow spirits compressed the mountain of rubble from the tunnel-digging efforts into condensed stone bricks, reducing the pile to a quarter of its original size.

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I’m not sure how long these nut spirits will last, but for now, their presence on the farm is helping me exponentially. Not only with farm work, but also with my loneliness. Because they are just so cute, and so fun to talk to…

I chose the cutest one from each kind of spirit and named them Aka for the red one, Ao for the blue one, and Ki for the yellow one. I chose them to be the representative of the spirits to help me manage the other five-hundred-ninety-seven spirits.

On another note, the slime boxes are working. After fully drying this first batch of slimes, I’d have a steady supply of twenty-five dried slimes per day from the day after tomorrow. I still don’t know what to do with so much dried slime, but stockpiling long-lasting food couldn’t hurt. After all, dried slime has a much longer shelf life than the cherry tomatoes I used to feed those slimes.