1. Sacred Sword
Migelo showed me the storeroom today, for the first time. It was really cool. I think Penelo maybe saw it before; he likes her a lot and has a soft spot for her, I'm sure. He's always giving her little candies and drafts of happy water when no one is looking, but I know she secretly hides them away in her little spot in the city. I've tried one or two once, just for kicks, but I got nervous after thinking she might know I know her place so I stopped going.
Saw Bucco today. The little toadie is still asking for money to tell ridiculous made-up stories about the city. I gave him a coin just to hear his new story, and because I felt a little sorry for him. Don't know who his parents are or if he even has some. I don't know why he hangs around the central downtown district so much. It's possible his parents might be drunks at the Sandsea and that's the only way he gets to eat. I've seen a lot of those kinds of kids come through Rabanastre.
The imperials are holding some fancy parade today, welcoming the new consul from Archadia. Politics bore me, but everyone is excited to attend and see our new representative. Maybe the imperials will calm down a bit and get a bit more lazy.
I really hate them. It's pretty close to the day I lost him to them, but nothing seems to help. I've held that pain for a long time and really have no desire to let it go. The imperials can be the object of my wrath any day, for all I care. They are bastards who took my life from me, and I'll show them someday.
Anyway, yeah, I saw the storeroom today. Migelo has some old stuff in there. He had a suit or armor that apparently was too rusted to wear. He says that in his younger days he used to wear it and go hunting, when he was young enough to march off with a sword and shield. Looking at him today it's hard to imagine Migelo was anything besides a shopkeeper. And I joked with him, but it's hard to imagine him inserting his snout into anything as heavy and compact as metal armor. Whatever, the thing was totally busted. It made me laugh.
His sword was beyond, though. It looked like it was in top shape. Migelo said he tries to polish it every week, just to keep the sheen on the tip. It was long, like the tooth of some giant beast, and really sharp. He showed me how he could cut a piece of wood across the edge just like paper. Amazing. What was even greater was that Migelo told me I could take it out to the desert when I got my permit from the local guild to go on sanctioned hunts. He said I was about the right age for it, and he didn't have no more use for it.
-Vaan
