A normal life

Missing magic

It’s cold today, colder than usual. Our second moon is full again. It feels like it is happing more than often lately. The days are passing faster hours fly by and the concept of a full planet rotating before you turn older feels like an annual thing. Lol, I'm just trying to confuse you. Our planet never rotates it just spins. Our up is never down and our down is never up. 

We are perfectly balanced.

The moons are beautiful tonight, and the smoky dust coming from the mines gives it an eerie, morbid feeling. They have been working down there day and night for the past few months. Apparently, someone found some sort of rare magical gem and they are convinced there is more down there. It has been so long since anyone had real magic around here.

Music has basically died out. We all know that produced a certain amount of magic, even if it is just a little bit. Since magic is no longer allowed, that meant that anything that could in any way cause it to accrue has also been removed from our society. These days we tend to live like, sorry to say this but humans. 

At least I still have all my pets to keep me company. Nessy has been gone a few weeks now. Studying abroad to learn how things are in other customs. Different cultures and so forth. I told you she would make the perfect queen. I do miss her. It feels like a piece of me left with her on that boat. 

As the loneliness pull me down and boredom overcomes me, I have started to build puzzles. Not like picture puzzles, though my life would make for an interesting work of art but a bigger puzzle. My puzzle.

Mom, dad, gran. There are still so many gaps, or shall I say missing pieces that I need to find to complete my picture. To see where I will fit in, into the greater scheme of things.

The thing is so many people say that they are trying to find themselves and honestly that is exactly what I am trying to do. I am to move out in the next 3 cycles and still have no idea what I want to do with my life.

My studies in ancient history (there you go now you know) have yet to lead me in any obtainable direction. I used to think that knowing what happened in our past could possibly lead me into my future. That did not happen. Mom and dad have been avoiding each other more than usual with Nessy gone. It’s kind of like the glue that kept us all in harmony fizzled out.

Now we are just bubbles in a crystal glass all moving in different directions.

“Hi, I haven’t seen you in forever. That new dragon still giving you a hard time?”

Pieterre: “Like I told your dad many times, that beast is untameable. I have seven soldiers in the hospital already and I doubt things are going to change any time soon. Our health benefits better cover all these injuries as I predict a lot more to come.”

Pieterre has been my best friend since I can remember. His dad was one of our best beast tamers and the only person I trusted to take care of my pets when I couldn’t. Unfortunately. he had a terrible accident a while ago. They were busy filling up the water truffles for the dragons' last winter, but the water froze faster than they could pore. He slipped on the ice and hit his head. He has been in slumber or as you call it “a coma” ever since. No one knows for sure if he will ever wake up again.

How is that for irony? He works with the most dangerous creatures to ever have existed and goes down with a piece of ice.

“How is he, any change?”

Pieterre: “Still the same. You know you don’t have to ask me every time you see me. You will be the first to know if things change.”

“I am sorry, it’s just that I don’t think I will ever get over the guilty feeling. It was our animals after all.”

Pieterre: “And? It’s your dragons that have our guys broken in hospital. Yet, without them, none of the wars we fought would have been won and millions would have lost their lives in the great battle. None of this is your fault it was a fluke accident and you know it.”

“Thank you for saying that. You always know how to kind of cheer me up and break me down in the same sentence. I am still trying to figure out if that is a good or a bad thing, and as you know those are the kingdom's dragons, not mine. Sadly.”

Pieterre: “I am trying to work out if that was a compliment or an insult. Hahaha. I better get going before I get into trouble. You know my boss can be extremely strict.”

“I can handle my dad. I just hope you can handle that dragon without killing yourself. Be safe please.”

Pieterre: “Well, look at the bright side, maybe I’ll see my dad there. I will send him your love. Just kidding but I will see you soon ok, got to run.”

“Farewell.” Never mind he has already gone.”

It feels as though every time I see Pieterre's dark hair, pale skin, and perfect smile. A piece of me melts. I can’t remember the first time I started having feelings for him. It was so long ago but I still remember the way I felt. Like someone had just taken away a burnt dish of vegetables and replaced it with all the candy I could possibly ask for. 

I know, I know, I was much younger than I am now. I know better than to eat so much candy. Just imagine the bellyache you would get from it. I do think a piece of candy like that would be totally worth it. Stop it Cassy do not think like that, you will get us both in trouble.