Dear Yume,

Tomorrow I leave for school. I have not seen a single Neo Card since I last wrote, and Oshuro is becoming worried over it. He thinks that something or someone else may be capturing them, or that they may have gone further than we can sense them.

I have not written merely because I have not had the time. My younger brother is ill, and my mother had to go away to visit some relatives so now my father is teaching me how to cook. I do not like cooking very much, since it almost all deathly boring. Baking is much better, since I enjoy eating cake a lot. Last year I started to bake cakes a lot in my spare time just for the heck of it.

I have not seen the sun in so many days, either. It rains and rains and rains, or fog rolls in and blankets the whole area. At least it isn't cold yet, but I am sure it will be soon enough since autumn is here. Plus, my school is 143 lengs to the North of here and it gets very snowy there very early in the wintertime.

At least I'm done packing. I finished only yesterday, too. I won't be back home for a long while, so I basically have to bring everything I own with me. I ended up filling up three trunks, and my sister told me I was bringing way too much. Compared to the fact that my last roomate had brought six trunks, I think I'm conservative. But I didn't bother answer my sister since she just would sass about it even if the other person had brought 600 trunks.

Oshuro's never been on a train before! They weren't invented yet when he was last awake. Instead the rode on animals, or if they were a sorceror or sorceress they got to ride on these big vegetables. Oshuro said it didn't matter what the name of the vegetables were, since they no longer exist, though. Isn't that odd? Riding on vegetables! He told me that they were enchanted so that they would levitate.

I tried to ask him more questions about the sorcerors and sorceresses of the past, but he wouldn't tell me. But he promised he would tomorrow while we were on the train. He says it would take too long to explain it all tonight and if he tried I'd never get to sleep and then I'd be exhausted tomorrow.

Well, it's time to go help with dinner. Oh yippee....

- Iyoneru