I realized something today.
I realized I’m going to be seeing a lot of something.
Of someone
Death.

In my lifetime,
A lot of my family and friends are going to die.
Think me mad, you may
Talking about Death in this way.

But think about it.
I’ve got a lot of family and friends that are much older than me.
They’re gonna die before me.
All thanks to that one someone

Death is a cruel being.
And again you may be thinking,
Is this boy insane?
Oh but trust me, I am not.
Just a deep thinker, is all.

My parents
My grandparents
My aunts and uncles
My second-cousin-twice-removed
They’re all probably gonna die before me.

Now I can see why people are so depressed as they get older
They’re exposed to more of Death.
Of him
Now I’m going to go out on a whim,
Again, you’re thinking I’m crazed.
No, no.
Just a bit… Odd.
Yes, yes, I admit it.
I am odd.
That’s pretty odd,
Don’t you think?
I’m admitting I am what an insult is, normally

I realized something today,
While writing this very poem,
Its that I am going to witness some strange things
But I will not let any of them control me.
Not even Death.
Who all have thought unconquerable.
I
Will
Conquer
Death.

Can you imagine

What it would be like

To have friends,

To have memories,

To have family,

To be trapped,

In a good way,

By your memories?

Can you imagine

Having a weapon

That only you could summon

And use at your own will?

I’m sure you don’t.

I can imagine it.

I am it.

I am Sora.

I can summon the Keyblade

A weapon of infinite power

That only I,

And one other person,

Can use.

I was, at one time,

A normal person like you.

Then the Heartless came.

Friends turned on me.

Friends were lost.

Friends turned dark.

Riku

Kairi

Memories of them both.

All of them lost.

In order to save Kairi

I had to release her heart from her body

I needed to turn the Keyblade on myself

I did

My heart was released

As was hers

We were Nobodies

We were Heartless

We were Organization XIII members

Our memories slipped away,

As with our hearts

Riku was engulfed in shadow

He had turned into the very

Thing he so hated before.

Kairi and I were swept to two different worlds.

Traverse Town was where I was swept

I still don’t know where Kairi went

I went to Castle Oblivion

The only place I had remembered

But sort of… didn’t remember.

I found a witch

Naminé

She told me

“I can get your memories back!”

She told me

“Memories of your friends,

Family,

You can be trapped again,

In a good way,

In your memories!”

She told me

“I can only do it

If you make it to the

Thirteenth floor of

Castle Oblivion!”

During that hike up,

I encountered the lord of the castle.

Marluxia

He could summon

A weapon

Just like me

Only… it wasn’t a Keyblade.

A huge scythe with flowers

Growing up the long handle was his weapon.

I had to fight him.

I defeated him.

I met Naminé on the thirteenth floor

She explained I would have to sleep

For almost a year

I wouldn’t remember fighting Marluxia.

I wouldn’t remember Naminé.

I wouldn’t remember any of the

Events at Castle Oblivion.

I promised I would always remember Naminé

And stepped into the memory chamber.

And my chain of memories were being mended

And put together by Naminé

I’m still in the sleep chamber, as Sora.

It was almost like a dream, I guess.

I saw myself in a black robe

Fighting off Heartless with my Keyblade.

Only, it wasn’t the yellow-handled key

Shape it was before.

It also acted differently, each time it changed.

I saw Heartless I had never seen before.

I saw people I had never seen before, too.

Wearing the same black robe.

They were fighting with me.

Helping me vanquish the Heartless.

There was one of the people,

Red hair, spiked back.

He had Chakrams for his weapon,

And he could summon it just like I could the Keyblade.

My Nobody befriended him

When we were done with whatever Heartless

The leader of the Organization sent us to destroy

We would meet under a clock tower.

Eat sea-salt ice cream

I couldn’t taste it, but my Nobody seemed to like it

That was when I realized

I was seeing through the eyes of my Nobody.

I was always referred to as Roxas,

Not once Sora

Except for in dreams.

My Nobody would sleep,

And would see scenes of everything between

A battle between someone with there eyes covered

Wielding a dark Keyblade

To a girl, drawing what looked like

Roxas, standing with the other person.

In the black robe of the Organization

Several days after joining the Organization,

I met the newest member.

She was another Keyblade wielder

Another of the Light.

She didn’t talk much, when she first joined

Just as I hadn’t.

When she did start to talk,

The chakram-weilder and I showed her our spot

Right under the clock tower

We’d eat our ice cream

And then just go back to

The castle where the Organization XIII dwelled.

Waiting for the next day to come,

And more missions from Saïx.

I learned more and more

Each day about the Organization’s meaning.

They were there to gather Hearts from Heartless

Then combine them to form Kingdom Hearts

Then we, the only gathering of Nobodies,

Would combine with Kingdom Hearts

And gain hearts for ourselves.

We’d get feelings,

Emotions,

Be able to make friends,

Be able to love,

There would be no more Heartless.

The Organization would disband,

We’d all probably never see each other again.

Xion and I were the only people able to get Hearts

Because of our Keyblades.

The people pushed us to our limits

Of defeating Heartless.

They sent us after things twice our size, even more.

They’d send us at enemies,

Expecting us to do certain things,

We’d fail, and get yelled at by Saïx

It was hard, working for Organization XIII

I’d be paired with the Chakram-weilder.

We’d defeat Heartless, together.

We completed all the missions against us.

We were an unbreakable pair

Then, on one mission in Twilight Town,

We were up against three huge Heartless.

Xion, the Chakram-weilder, and I all took on the mission together.

We defeated the Heartless.

All by working together.

Then, it all went downhill.

Xion fell into a deep sleep

And wouldn’t wake up.

Roxas would bring her seashells,

Place them by her head.

She finally woke up

After ten days.

Ten days of infinite sleep.

Kind of like where I was now.

She woke up and put one of the seashells to her ear,

My Nobody asked her “What do you hear?”

“The ocean, sounds like a snoring giant.

Asleep, just as I was.” She replied.

The Chakram-weilder came in and noticed Xion was up

“Oh! Hey there, Sleeping Beauty” He said

We laughed. Felt.

Something Nobodies weren’t able to do.

“Why do you think this happened, Axel?”

Then I realized.

Before then, I’d never known the Chakram-weilder’s name.

He rubbed the back of his head. Told us

“I asked Saïx about it

He seemed kind of… suspicious about all of this.

He called you broken, Xion.”

“He what?” I replied.

“She is NOT broken.”

“That’s what I said”

Axel replied.

“He acted like she was a glitched machine.

As if he knew something about the two of you.

I think he does…”

It was a bright and sunny day. An eerie calm had descended upon the destroyed city, contrasting the normal busy atmosphere. Amid the wreckage of what we once called New York, there were corpses. Several thousand, in fact, filling the air with the foul stench of rotting flesh. I leaned closer over one of the lifeless bodies but reeled in shock when I saw movement. The entire city’s corpses were coming alive, I realized, and I had a sudden, ominous feeling I was about to join them.

The bodies suddenly grayed in color, the one I was looking at moaned quietly and got up. I saw that the flesh on his arms on legs had tightened around his bones, making him look like a grey skeleton. He was much taller than I was. I had to look up to see his face. It moaned again and then lifted its hands as if to bring them down upon my head like a hammer to a nail. A black shadow moved above me. I caught glimpses of something gold reflecting in the dim light.

“The Glifus has thawed”, it said. I soon realized it was a man in a cape, it was to utterly black so I couldn’t see the gold thing.

He moved slightly, and a huge beam of radiating light moved from what I thought was his arm. The zombie things were melted to a crisp and then fell to dust. He turned to me.

I looked him up and down, his left arm looked normal above the elbow but then thinned down to bone and there was the gold thing. It was a small cannon compared to the beam it had just put out. I said, “Who are you?”

“My name is nothing to you right now. Come.” He told me.

He walked forward, and through the streets and alleys he walked. We eventually ended up where we started.

“We just went in a complete circle. Where are you taking me, mister?” I said, my tone firm.

“I was just making sure you would follow every command I gave you, and you did. Lets go back to HQ.” He replied.

He moved the hand without the “Glifus” or whatever it was, and a purple radiating thing opened. He walked towards it and turned back to me, he said, “Are you coming?”

I nodded and followed him into the purple thing. He walked straight through it, and I followed. We ended up in a huge black clad room. That’s all I remember…

A blinding light penetrated through my eyelids. I heard a woman say “He’s waking up!”, and then I saw her face. She had blue skin of all things, but I thought she was beautiful. Her dark hair flowed slightly past her shoulders, and her thin face was smiling at me. “I’m sorry for knocking you out. I thought you were one of the former humans from outside that followed Glo into the portal. You tasted like one. What’s your name, rookie?” She asked him.

“A-Asheral. But my friends call… called… me Ash. What has happened in the past week? I heard this huge explosion and suddenly I’m the last person alive in New York.”

Glo came over, and said to me, “It seems that some country has discovered a new form of nuke. It mutates humans and turns them into… zombies.” He said. “We’re the last one’s alive, that we know of. Although the nuke hasn’t killed us, it has mutated us. To give us powers. For example, my power is the Glifus.” I looked down at his arm, no cannon! A normal arm was where the gold cannon was. A bulb of light surrounded his arm and the Glifus appeared. “Tenx’s power is she can taste things without touching them, and she knows what they are. As you can tell, its done a bit more than give Tenx powers…” He frowned, and she blushed. I think he was referring to her blue skin. “Our mission is to get everyone from the disaster. You have a power to, we just have to discover it. You’ve been mutated to, physically.” Tenx, get me a mirror.” She left through a hidden door and then came back hold a mirror. “Look at your eyes”

I did, and what I saw disturbed me. My eyes had turned to gold. “What in the world?! My eyes are gold!” I said. I felt as if I was going to vomit.

“The bomb has seemed to of mutated your eyes. Maybe it has to do with your powers.” Glo told me.

The Frozen Flame

Valix flinched as his Frozen Flame necklace burned against his chest for the third time that week. He had gone to the Council of Monks, but they had refused his plea for help. Other students in his Core have been talking about their Frozen Flames heating up to, but none of them Valix knew very well. A few days ago he had heard his two of his Educators, Shade and Suki, talking as he was going to one of his classes.

            “What are we to do, Shade? The students Frozen Flames have been heating up. What if the heating gets so intense that their chests begin to burn? What if they begin to talk about it, and begin to make rumors of them being punished or something? What if—“

            “Stop rambling, Suki. There is only one explanation. They’ve been Chosen. The Eracor Brothers read the prophecy, don’t doubt them. They can sense the tablet’s thoughts. It knows what has been written on it by the Ancients. The Eracor know all, you know better than to doubt them. Don’t get yourself thrown into the Outside.” Shade said.

            “Yes, I know. I’m sorry for doubting the Brothers. It’s just so… stressful, having students in my Core being Chosen. The only reason could be war,” She said that word with such a tone that even Shade flinched. “People in other Core are still rebuilding from the last war. A war with the Outside could destroy the Mathis Core. Everyone who was there remembers it. It was a hard time, Shade, A really hard time to live in.”

            At that point he walked away, not wanting to hear anymore. He wasn’t there during the last war; all he knew was that his parents were killed in its final battle.

He glanced at his watch and realized it was noon, only a few hours until Combat class. He walked to his bookshelf and pulled a random Manga from its shelves. He looked at the cover and saw that it was Ranma ½, one of his favorites. He read that and several other Manga until his Combat class.

The combat room looked just as you would imagine it, swords, knives, and small daggers hanging in racks, throwing stars in small pouches under the benches around the room, practice weapons in bins at each corner, and blood-red walls to finish the room off. There was even some Outside weapons like Chakrams, Small, top-like blades that when spun with a ripcord and launcher correctly can slice directly through its target. It was Valix’s weapon of choice. As Valix was practicing a simple technique, The Puppets Master, he felt that the room was a bit draftier than normal. He looked around and saw nothing, but a small movement caught his eye. He looked directly at it and saw it was just the Educator or one of the students in the next room, there silhouette shining through the partitions of the combat rooms walls.

As the combat teacher, Hyax, collected there practice swords from the students, he asked

Valix, “Has there been anything odd happening lately, Valix? You seem to be heating up a bit lately.”

            In a slightly quieter-voice-than-normal he told his teacher “Yes sir. Actually there has. Can I talk to you when all the other students leave?”

            The other students left him and Hyax alone in the classroom. He began by telling his teacher, “Let’s cut right to the chase, my Frozen Flame has been heating up, sometimes glowing. It’s happened three times this week.”

            The eye-patched, tough looking, spiky haired man looked at Valix oddly. He said “Very odd, other students have been complaining of the same problem. Let me see your necklace.” Valix pulled out the silver sphere on his necklace that had been on his neck since he was born. There looked to be a stationary flame inside the shiny sphere. Hyax pulled out a magnifying glass and looked into the shining thing in his hands. He looked like a doctor who had just discovered a new disease. “My boy, you must bring this to Suki immediately. Tell her to look very closely into your Frozen Flame. Go, NOW!”

            He ran to the Core headmaster’s office and showed Suki his Frozen Flame. “Oh… my… Boy, has anything odd been happening lately? Anything that you’ve heard other students talking about?”

            Valix said, “Yes, Ma’am. My Frozen Flame has been heating up, three times this week. I heard you and Shade talking the other day, you said that students whose Frozen Flame’s have been heating up have been Chosen. Have I… been Chosen?”

            She looked at him, anger in her eyes for a millisecond, but then guilt. “I’m afraid so, Valix. Follow me.” She brought him into a room about twice the size of his quarters. “This is the room where we keep students whom have been Chosen. That is Midas.” She pointed to a boy who looked like he was trying hard not to touch any of the walls. “That is Hyka.” She gestured toward a girl about as old as Valix. She was talking to another girl who looked like she was a bit older. “And that girl next to her is Jaek. That one over there is Kyhal.” She pointed to a boy in one of the beds. He looked fairly muscular. “The last person is Shade, but he is teaching history classes.”

            So Shade’s been chosen, Valix thought. I thought only students could be chosen…

            “So I stay here? No classes or any of that?” He said this time. “Cool.”

            The next few days pass without much activity. Valix had befriended everyone, except for that one boy. Midas. He looked towards him. It seemed he was always in that one corner. He walked toward Midas and said “Hello, I’m Valix. I’m the newest Chosen.” He held out his hand for him to shake.

            “Don’t touch me, you’ll turn to gold.” He turned away from him, keeping steadily on his tall golden stool.

            Valix went back to the others. In a deep voice Kyhal said “Yeah, we don’t normally interact much with him. Apparently, he turned that stool to gold.” He said. That’s why he’s named Midas. Ever heard that legend?” Valix shook his head. “It’s about a greedy king named Midas; he wishes that he could turn everything that he touched to gold. A god named Dionysus gave him that wish, and then he touched his daughter… and well that’s really the end of the story.” He shrugged his shoulders. 

            “Well, that’s kind of horrible… I wonder who thought that that legend up. I’m going to go into the Combat room. I have the feeling that there is going to be something big happening soon, like something we have to fight for.” He hadn’t told them about Shade and Suki’s conversation. “Anyone want to spar?”

            “Sure, I’ll come.” Jaek said. “Practice Chakrums?”

            “Valix replied, “Sure, whatever.” He beamed. “I’m going to win though!”

            They both ran to the small room at the corner, and picked up the foam rings and rip cords. “3-point match. You can go anywhere in the room. A hit to the torso or head is one point. Arms or legs are half a point. Do you agree?” Valix said.

            She smiled and prepared her weapon. “Yes.”

            “Very well, start”

            With a swift flick of her wrist the foam disc whizzed past Valix’s head. He chuckled, and let loose the circle… Suddenly, everything seemed to slow down. He was standing and moving at normal speed while everything else in the room looked as if it was barely moving. He walked close to his Chakrum and aligned it correctly, to hit Jaek’s head, and moved back to the spot he was at before. He thought about her bewildered look at how his weapon had looked like it was going to miss but suddenly was aiming directly at its target again. Everything came back to him like a baseball bat hitting his face. There was a rush of air and suddenly Jaek was on the ground. She jumped to her feet and her face was just as he hoped it would look like.

            “How-, where-, what?” she said. “Don’t tell me you’ve developed powers like Midas. You did, didn’t you?!” She was grinning. “What is your power? Oh please tell me!!” She said eagerly. “Never mind, I know. We have to tell the guys!” She was out of the room like a bullet from a gun.

            Valix took the cord out of the launching mechanism on the foam and followed her into the main room of the separate branch of the Core. Jaek was talking nearly to fast for all of the other Chosen to follow. She was telling them about how he had generated his Flame Powers, obviously. He thought Flame powers… That’s what I’ll call them.

            “He moved his Chakrum by stopping time to hit my face. It was amazing! Even though the only reason he did it was to get a sparring point.” She scowled at him. “He’s generated powers just like Midas!”

Midas was still sitting on that one stool… Always on the stool. Midas was looking at them. Valix knew he had heard Jaek.

Valix looked away from Midas and looked at Jaek. She was gasping since she had talked so fast. Valix chuckled, and Jaek looked at him oddly. “You’re gasping because you talked so fast.”

She laughed to. He had a suspicion to what her power was going to be.

Everyone didn’t sleep much, their Frozen Flames kept them up, as if they knew something was going to happen at night. And that night, Valix knew what that thing was. The middle of the roof caved in, and on top of all the gravel and concrete stood a very thin… thing dressed in rags. It was humanoid, but so thin that bones shone through the skin. It couldn’t be human, Valix knew, unless…

Valix felt the sensation as he had in the practice room, a rush of wind and everything slowed. He ran to the practice room and grabbed a real Chakrum. He began time again and flung the small spinning circle of blades. It went right through the thing and it fell to the ground. The four of them, Valix, Hyka, Jaek, and Kyhal, went to examine the thing. It looked as if it had eaten away its lips if it ever was human. Whatever was left of its lips was stretched over its teeth.

“Outsider” Valix whispered. To everyone he said, “Grab the weapon your best with from the room, there may be more. We have to get out of here!”

Hyka came out with a long, crimson bladed Katana. Kyhal came out with gloves with spikes on them. Jaek also brought a Chakrum. That’s when Valix remembered Midas.

He walked toward him and asked, “Did you really make that stool gold?”

Midas smirked and said, “Yes, I’m afraid so. I can control it though, to an extent. Sometimes it just makes where I step gold. That’ll be fine though, more riches for the rest of us.”

“Alright, turn it off or whatever you do to control it. Go get a weapon. We may have to fight more Outsiders.” Valix said to him, He was surprised at how commanding his voice sounded.

Midas got up and ran to the weapons room. He came out brandishing two crossbows. “These are what I’m best with, I guess, out of the small collection we have access to.”

“Alright, we’ll need some long range weapons, good.” Valix said. “We’ll see if we can get to the main weapons practice room. We can stock up on better weapons their.”

They left the room. They saw that the roofs there were caved in. In the shadows Valix and Hyka were sure they saw movement. “I saw Outsiders!” Hyka said.

“I know I did to. Their setting a trap.” Valix said.

“The solution?” Replied Hyka.

“Spring the trap.” He snickered and then whispered. “We’ll kill them when we get to the end of that rubble.” He gestured toward the end of a large rubble pile close to the end of the hall.

They got to the end of the hall and turned around. Midas readied his crossbows, and fired into the small gap in the wall and killed two of them. The rest came out soon after. They were widdled down to none quickly. They turned around to go into the main weapons practice room.

Valix opened the door quietly and went in. There stood a huge Outsider, ten feet tall at the least. Their was contaminated areas on the Outside. It sometimes mutated some Outsiders. This must’ve been one of the victims. Hyax stood in front of the thing. He held a small knife. The Outsider jabbed his huge fist into Hyax’s chest. Hyax had the breath blown out of him. He fell to the ground, and the Outsider stepped on him. Valix heard his bones crack, and knew Hyax was dead.

“Hyax!” Valix said.

He ran up to the huge Outsider and sliced at it with his Chakrum. The thing fell to the ground, dead.

Hyka said, “Valix, you moved incredibly fast. You must’ve triggered your power unknowingly.”

Valix didn’t reply. Hyax was a great friend to him, like a father. He crouched by his friends body. He knew he was dead, but wanted to bring him to the Core infirmary.

Hyka walked over to him and put her hand on his shoulder. “He’s dead Valix, I’m sorry. I know he was like a father to you.”

“This is the last straw, Outsiders. You will all die. I will kill you all. For my parents, and for Hyax.” He whispered.

Hyka thought he looked like the Outsiders. Savagely wanting to kill everything in their path. She pushed her spectacles up, and said “Valix, we can’t take him. We must get out of this Core. We must go onto the Outside. We can’t stay here.”

Valix’s shoulders were moving up and down slowly. He looked to Hyka and she saw that tears stained his cheeks. “I… know. I agree… We must get out of this building.”

They ran until they found a door to the outer wall. The Core had one huge circular wall surrounding it. Inside there were several buildings connected by narrow halls, like the one that Valix had heard Shade and Suki’s conversation in.

When they got out, they were surprised to see Shade fighting off many Outsiders. On top of a mountain of rubble, stood the black-robed figure that was Shade. He was surrounded by about eight Outsiders. None of them were contaminated, fortunately. Midas used his crossbows to take care of four Outsiders with two arrows.

He’s an incredible archer, Valix thought. A boy who can turn things to gold being incredibly lucky. Go figure!

The last four were taken down by Hyka’s Katana and Jaek’s gloves. Shade held his short sword steady and said, “Who are you?”

“We’re the other Chosen, Educator Shade. Suki told us about you.” Valix said. “Speaking of which, where is Suki?”

Shade’s gaze darkened and his shoulders drooped. “I’m afraid she’s dead, I was in her office when the roof caved in. A contaminated Outsider was there. He had a huge slab of metal, and stabbed her several times.”

Valix’s jaw dropped. He was stunned. The Outsider had to of known where the Headmaster’s office is in order to kill her that quickly. “This means one and only one thing, we’ve got a traitor on our hands. The Outsider had to of known where the Headmaster’s office is in order to kill her that quickly.” Valix said.

“I was thinking the same thing”, the other Chosen said in unison.

Shade spoke next, “We must get out of here. I know a secret tunnel that was used during the Great War. It was used for this very kind of thing.”

They followed Shade as he ran, the children trying hard not to fall behind in his large stride. The tunnel entrance was hidden under sand. Shade dug with his hands and soon there was a small door just big enough for someone to get through. They opened it up and walked inside.

“This is an old tunnel, be careful not to make any noise or touch the walls. We really don’t want to have a cave-in down here.” Shade said.

They traveled about half a mile into the tunnel system. They passed several skeletons of Outsiders. The tunnel system was like a labyrinth of dead ends and traps. They exit was a ladder leading up to a door that showed little light through it.

It’s day here… We must’ve passed through a whole time zone!  Valix thought.

Shade was first to climb up. Then Valix, Hyka, Jaek, Kyhal and Midas. They were in the middle of a desert. The wind was strong and it looked like the dual suns were strongest here.

“What desert is this?” Valix said. “I’ve never seen it on any maps around the Core.”

I await sleep
in the middle of winter
hearing ice
and snow
fall off my roof…

I make a comparison in my head,
‘How is the falling ice like
how americans are during the holidays?’
I think to myself.

The thins i came up with for that comparison were, like how americans are
during the holidays,
it’s a huge kaboom!
like when that falling ice
falls to the ground,
another common thing between these two thoughts,
is that the big box stores, outlet malls, and the things like that
are so packed, like that ice, which was once snow itself, compacted
until it froze,

I like to think of this like a timeline,
so, it starts out as snow,
like the normal person out in one of the
big box stores, or outlet malls,
but then in December,
it gets so compacted and packed
elbow to elbow, bumper to bumper
like the ice,
then after the holidays,
it turn into snow again just as it
was before

How’d you like it? Please comment on any of my many posts i have put up on this website, more of THE SEEN, YET UNSEEN and The Dragon Rider are coming very, very soon.
soon, every day there is going to be a new poll to take on this blog, kinda like my uncles Question of the day.

dear journal
this is entry 2. i’ve found an abandoned settlement of the busamzic tribe. according to the tribe i befriended, who’s name i can’t
write or pronounce, said that they conquered the busamzic tribe 45 moon’s (nights) ago. i was escorted here by them.

dear journal
i have just found someone, a guru, i think, he’s wearing a mask that is so big it cover’s his entire body all that you can see is
his arms and legs. he’s sitting in a meditorial position. i tapped his shoulder and he fell, i took the mask off him and it looked like
all his blood was sucked out of his face. his eyes were open, i closed them i decided to burn the body. it was the most humane
way to get rid of it.

dear journal
it is day 7. i am growing weary. from all the survival stories i’ve read, i learned a lot. tonight i’ll make a snare, hopefully catch
something. have i ever  told you my carreer? i’m an american  scientist.(i was in africa at the time before the kidnapping).  my
life’s work (or at least dream) is to create a suit of robotic armorthat can do amazing things, like project force fields or use sound
as a weapon. who knows? i might think of something in this forest. maybe blue prints? i donno, we’ll see, i guess.

dear journal
 in the snare, i caught a chinchilla, i checked it for rabees and fortunaetly the thing didn’t have the deadly disease. i’ve
learned how to gut animals from watching man vs. wild so much. it was a good meal.