The Sky Demon: An Autobiography

by RyuuNoOkaasan

Izark has grown up being told he will some day be the Sky Demon of Destruction. He enters the Sea of Trees to kill the Awakening - that which will make him into that which he doesn't want to be. When Noriko is an intellectual, what does that mean for his future? A retelling of The Dangers of Being Intellectual, from Izark's perspective - because the world needs to know *his* story.

43. Appendix: Historian's Note

I've included here at the end of Izark's own story three short vignettes I found in my transcribing of Dr. Clairgeeta's research notes.

The first one, Courageous Hearts, is published here exactly as I found it written in his notes. I've often wondered, as I pondered on all of the records I've found, if it's actually Miss Letia's own words, because it's told from her point of view.

Even in Noriko's words, Dr. Clarigeeta already knew how to access and walk in the World of Light before they met him. Is it possible that he went into the World of Light and asked to speak with Miss Letia and she told him her story of meeting the young Sky Demon?

It's a touching story, regardless, and I think all the world is at the very least grateful that she was willing to turn the child Izark towards the light from an early age. She indeed was a star for him from which he could get his first glimpse of the hope of the light, and thus be prepared to meet the Awakening.

The second one, Izark's Song, seems to be a written musing in poetic form by Izark himself, and was a loose page in the notebook. I suspect that Dr. Clairgeeta discovered it somehow not long after Izark wrote it and requested if he could have it.

I like to imagine that Izark was completely embarrassed to have it discovered and read by anyone else, but because of his friendship with his kind host allowed him to have it, perhaps extracting a promise that it not be shared with anyone else. (I will apologize for doing so very publicly, if that was the case.)

I also like to think that Dr. Clairgeeta asked for it because he privately wanted to have at least one thing in his personal library from the Sky Dragon himself. It was likely one of his crowning triumphs to own, since he never personally saw Izark's journal. I know it would have been mine.

The final story, Sudden Partners, I believe was written by Dr. Clairgeeta in his notes after an evening of story telling around the sitting room after dinner during the years they lived in the house with him. Likely Izark was feeling comfortable, perhaps even nostalgic, and his wife had pleaded for it. Dr. Clairgeeta would have added his own pleas, and perhaps in the face of both of them, Izark had chosen to tell this one as an entertainment for the evening.