AN: This is (obviously) a diary entry from a former Controller. The idea's been in my mind for a while, and I finally got the creative surge to write it down (in less than a half-hour). It may be improved and updated later. ~*~Please~*~*~*~review~*~



July 8th, 2000
Dear Diary

You know, sometimes I'll be walking in the park and I'll feel a breeze on my face, or I'll be riding the bus home and the windows will be open and I'll have to shut my eyes against the wind, or I'll be showering with the radio on, and I can only think "Thank God I'm free."

Freedom is an amazing feeling. It's like breathing after you've had no air for a while, or eating sweets after you've been on a diet. You never realize that you have it until you lose it, and then it's all you can think of. _She_ knew that. Arius499 knew that every day, I wept in my mind and hoped and prayed and cried to be free. I missed it so badly. Now, I don't have to.

I will never, ever, ever in a million lifetimes forget this feeling. I can do anything I want! I can blink and swallow and breath when _I_ want to, not when some slug tells me to. I can run and laugh and smile and sing and do anything because it's me making the decisions. Diary, I can write to you. Until a few days ago, you hadn't been touched in over a year. Now, you'll be full before the end of the month.

I'm rambling, I know, I always do, but right now, I can only say......"

"THANK GOD I'M FREE!!!"

Love and Freedom Always,
Melody Grenbrook