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Sun 8th Nov 2020 08:50

PIRATES AGAIN!!

by 5th Blade of House Senhotep Karazasura Senhotep

Back in Del'Orta! It would seem as if I am cursed to drink the stench of the sea like a paramour's perfume. At least I have Bas'tet for company. My journey has proven an excellent opportunity to finish some drawings which were pulling at my mind. We'll see how they turn out; any good ones, I can send back to Sister and Father, and any which turn out like shite I can say the ocean rattled my stencil!
 
My aim is to have this over with as soon as possible. Naturally, given the gravity of the assignment I want to invest my all in it, for my family's honor, but... with these whispers of war, my deepest wish is to keep my family close. HAH! Hikari relishes the opportunity to prove herself by jumping back into the action, but frankly, I don't think she has anything left to prov, and that strange wound of hers is proving slow to heal. Typically, I'd be worried someone else--aside fro myself!--would be raring to step up and take her place as First Blade, but... everyone else is scattered about as well. The Blades of House Senhotep are more now like the Autumn Leaves of House Senhotep, swept apart by the four winds.
 
My my... I really ought to pursue poetry those days where I can't find the muse to draw; that was really quite good.
 
Amiri is a top-tier poet. Ahh, I can't help but think of him. It's not unheard of for a Blade to go missing on assignment, but with the nature of what he was doing... it makes my swords heavy in their scabbard. I'll keep my eyes sharp for him.
 
Bas'tet refuses to leave me alone, so I think my entry ends here--may the Platinum Dragon watch me through the gleam of my sword, guard me in the plates of my armor, guide me in the words of the strangers I've yet to make familiar, and bless me in the light of sun and moon. I am but a transient pilgrim walking the tracks of this past and future world, my blood the blood of my lord and my father and my people.