Session 8

Hi Dad,
 
Miss and love you a lot. I miss you, mom, Ralmenos, Annie, and Cassie. We had a tough day, though comparatively I think mine was actually ok to everyone else's.
That trial Ymot and Didreomm gave us, it was.... weird. First of all, it was weird. I can't quite explain to you what happened or how it happened. We were all put into this room and told to pick a door and then like... for a split second after opening the door we all experienced this weird dream like state. It only lasted maybe a minute or two, but it felt like hours.
 
Whatever happened to everyone else, it really shook them. Everyone afterwards was just sort of staring into space and sulking. Mine was lovely, though I'm already choking up about it.
 
At first I was a teacher, I had my own lecture hall and my own desk! There was even this cute little nameplate on the desk that said "Ms. Fortune". I taught the students mage hand and thaumaturgy and then this cute little kid came out and spooked me! With my own prank! It was adorable, so I told him to come teach my class. It was all a dream anyway, and you know, if I'm ever a teacher, I think I'll bring in random kids to remind everyone to just have fun every once in a while. The kid knew real magic, but he starts pulling scarves out of his sleeves and cards tricks from his boots and it was just so funny. I could imagine Ralmenos getting into that kind of stuff for fun.
 
I can't remember what it was, but something made me feel like I needed to go back to the door I came from. When I walked through, I was back home! It felt so real, I almost forgot entirely about the trial. The smell of stove pellets burning to keep the house warm and the sight of dirt tracked in from the street after we all ran back inside, it was like I never left. But immediately I freaked out because I couldn't find mom anywhere! I wanted to say hi to her but she wasn't sitting at her shrine. When I went and found you, I found her right beside you, like nothing had ever happened to her. I gave her a big hug. A big big hug. I knew it was fake, and man is it leaving quite the bruise on my heart, but I just felt like the happiest kid again. You two were making dinner, which smelt delicious. Roasted chicken, I remember everything we ate in that dream even now. I even had to have roast chicken tonight for dinner to alleviate my hunger. But tavern chicken just isn't the same as yours. Everyone was there too, I went and fetched the kids who all jumped out and spooked me, but I wrestled them to see who could get to the table first. And then Melecha came and joined us and we just had the greatest dinner. I mean, you and Melecha argued about something stupid of course, but Ralmenos burped and mom and you scolded him and everyone else laughed and it was just like all our family dinners.
 
When we left the dream states or whatever they were, everyone was so solemn. Ymot and Diddreomm tell us that we were all supposed to learn something from this experience, that it was supposed to test our willpowers and lead us in a direction somewhere.
I really don't know what that means. I mean, from what I'm telling you, do you know?
I have no idea what I was supposed to learn.
 
Right now we're back at the tavern, no one seemed to want to talk or be around each other so I'm just in my room trying to figure this out.
Maybe they were trying to tell me that I don't need to keep looking for a family, cause I got one. Out here on the road, it's hard to remember the warmth and closeness of your family. Especially when you're just surrounded by strangers who have their own families, their own struggles and battles, their own strengths and weaknesses. I've thought about it, about how close I'm supposed to be to my traveling group, but you are my priority. You, Melecha, and everyone else. I'm out here for myself and my family above all else. Because you all mean more to me than anything. Nothing has made me more lucky, more fortunate, than to have a family to support and love me all my life.
 
I think my dreams telling me to keep fighting for my dream to get to Skyrise and to keep fighting for my family back at home. So, that's what I'll do!
 
Love you and everyone else at home, always
Miss Fortune