THE KOREILE DIARIES
ENTRY TWO - KOREILE'S ROOM
We boarded the Prima Vista and all got settled in. Blank, Marcus, Cinna and I arrived in the meeting room right on time. Zidane arrived later. Before he arrived, we killed tiem by playing card games and having small talk. Cinna had challenged Marcus to a card game, and was shouting and cursing everytime Marcus won a card. In the end, Marcus walked away with three of Cinna's cards, and Cinna was left with nothing. Although that pissed him off, I'm sure he'll get over it. Marcus, despite the fact that he's good at cards, was never into the game, and it wouldn't surprise me if he gave Cinna his cards back.
Blank and I sat in the cornor of the room, flipping through the pages of his sketch book. There was another rough draft of me in there. This time, he decided to draw me as I would look as a Nekote. I still had my clothes and long hair, but Blank added fur to my arms, neck, and face, and gave me cat ears and a tail. My face had been transformed into a feline's. My eyes, nose, cheeks and lips resembled that of a cat's, yet (like the Nekote people), the majority of my face was flesh, not fur (the same applied to my stomach and legs. Those were the only parts on the Nekote people that wasn't covered in fur).
When I saw that drawing, I couldn't help but ask him: "So what motivated you to draw this one?" It was in a whisper, of course. Blank's sketchbook is still a secret we share.
He replied with "Must've had something to do with Koreile's Utopia. If you're Utopia has a Nekote village, shouldn't you be a Nekote as well?"
That made us laugh. The guys didn't pay too much attention. Occassionally, they teased us for "flirting". But all the laughing and teasing came to a stop when we heard a match being lit in the other room, and saw light shining in through the crack under the door. It was Zidane, late as usual. We stepped out to great him... only to have the Boss jump into the room with a dragon mask on his head. He roared monsterously and just about scared the life out of us. Our natural response was to fight him, and in the process, Zidane swiped a Mage Masher from the Boss' belt. When the battle was over (which happened when Marcus managed to split the Boss' mask right down the middle), Zidane was allowed to keep the Mage Masher, and the meeting began.
As it turns out, Regent Cid had told the Boss to perform "I Want to be Your Canary" in the kingdom of Alexandria. While Marcus played the lead (along with the Boss, Zereno, Bereno, and Cinna), it would be up to Blank, Zidane and I to kidnap the heir to the Alexandrian throne: Princess Garnet. Blank was given a package of oglops that he would use to distract anyone who tried to get in our way. That would certainly do the trick too. Oglops are disgusting. I hate the little buggers. Anyways, before we could let the oglops keep the knights and Queen and whoever busy, we needed to use a sleeping potion that I made from a sleeping weed to knock out the princess. While she was unconscious, Blank, Zidane and I would have to get her onto the Prima Vista while fighting off the guards that weren't being troubled by the oglops (if there were any).
I have to admit that I am a little nervous about all of this. We never kidnapped anybody before, let alone a princess. I don't mean to be pessimistic, but what if this causes trouble between Alexandria and Lindblum? They know that the Tantalus troupe is from Lindblum, after all. Blank tells me not to worry about it, but I really can't help feeling a little paranoid.
I'm sitting on my bunk bed (the top bunk, of course), writing this and sharpening my sai blades. I have a very, very bad feeling about all of this. Brahne could never be trusted, and everyone in Lindblum knows that she would just love to start a war with someone. So who knows what she'll do once we kidnap her daughter...
Just what is Regent Cid plotting anyway? Why do we need to capture the princess? What good is that going to do?
Zidane just walked in. He says we're now pulling into Alexandria. I had better go...
