Diary

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:Mischief:

And here we were thinking that there was something really evil trying to destroy us all this time!

Turns out that the troublemakers all this time—the ones who've been trying to drown us ever since we walked into Tetyth, the ones who've been laying all these crazy traps in our way—are just a pair of demon children, twins called the Red Sage and the Blue Fool.

And even crazier—they were under the impression that we were the bad guys!

The resident Accursed or something like it has been spreading its lies about us, telling the local demons that we're cruel and cold-hearted killers out to destroy every demon in our path, and these two decided to do something about it. We aren't (well… maybe I can't say the same about Serene, who hates demons for her own very understandable reasons), which was lucky enough for them, because I was able to get the girls to lay off of them when we explained everything and they apologized. They shut the water gates and left, which keeps us from having to worry about being drowned in this crazy city.

Somehow the Sage and the Fool remind me of myself when I was a little kid. I used to run around and cause trouble sometimes, too—usually with a girl closer to my age than Ledah; her name was Malice—and I never meant any real harm, either. Ledah was always too straight-laced to get enjoyment out of those kinds of things, and he used to like to read more than anything else anyway.

Well, the point here is that not all the demons around here are bad. Maybe some of them could even settle back into Riviera and live in peace, if we get rid of the troublemakers and ringleaders like the Accursed that do want to attack Asgard and take over the island for their own uses.

And I'm glad that at least in this case, fights don't have to end in killing.

I still hate that, and I think I always will, no matter how much bloodshed I see. Which Fia says is a good thing; as far as she's concerned, there's something wrong with you if you like to kill (I'm glad Serene never heard her say that, because she LOVES beating up demons, and we don't need any more internal strife than we've already got). I'm glad I have her support.

Now that the drowning issue is over, everyone's settled down. Lina is happy because of the amount of weird stuff the water has set afloat in here—always after treasure, as usual. Fia is alternately admiring the architecture and shaking her head over Tetyth's self-possessed glory. Serene is happy because of the demons being around (which she enjoys beating on), and both Cierra and Rose are interested in the rumors of a great library being around the church district.

And the Undines we've seen around will probably help us when it comes time to get out of here.

So now… all we have to concentrate on is the job at hand.