Phaedra's Ledgers

A collection of letters, notes, maps, lists, dossiers, blank papers, and even paintings collected with a journal of leather. It was once a shade of blue or perhaps green, but now has worn flat with age and use. Still visible, however, is a stamp in the shape of a radiant sun. Fading ink on the interior cover reads:

For our Sunshine —

So you can record all life's adventures.

Love,
Papa

The pages are filled with drawings and sporadic writings. Both are shaky and childlike to start, but grow in confidence and intricacy as the pages progress. The early entries are written in the common, shifting eventually to the language of the dark elves in what can presume to be adolescence. As time goes on, the sketches become fewer and fewer, but what few there are speak to a care and a talent perhaps cultivated by joy. The closer to current the entries become, the more often they appear to be written in a language similar to common, but as though it had been written through a distorted mirror, upside down and backwards. Others are quite clearly encoded in some other fashion. Nothing in recent years, it seems, seems to be intended for eyes other than the author's own.

Type

Journal, Personal

Authors

• Phaedra Dawn