Ethan:
It’s been a quiet day around here compared
to the last couple of days. Our Sunday
morning was normal – both at home and church; Cassie worked the full shift at
the Inn so we only saw her while we were there for the late buffet sitting; and
Dad had to work too; so Ehlana and I had some play time with Mom, some of our
cousins, and a few friends this afternoon while they were busy.
We had a short thunderstorm roll through
mid-afternoon that cooled things down a bit without messing up our outdoor play
time for too long; and Mom did a bedtime Magi lesson with us after we got back
from the Inn – and while Dad wrapped up his homework for the night. I’d comment on that for being a good reason for
why I won’t grow up to be a lawyer too, but my job in the archives will likely
be worse for me bringing my work home with me!
Case-in-point – I read in the digital library for almost an hour after
my bath and the bedtime chat with Ehlana on her bed; and that would’ve kept Dad
busy for days instead of an hour. Even
Mom, Cassie, and Ehlana would need a few hours to cover the same material; and
I’m not pointing that out to brag – just as another observation for why being
the Magi Archivist is going to be the perfect job for me.
I have a bit of time before I’ll be
officially taking that job, though, and the focus on the reading does tire me out;
so it’s time to wrap this up and get some sleep.
Ethan – out!
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Ehlana:
I don’t really have any news from today; so
let’s take a look ahead as the countdown to Cassie’s departure for college
continues and we’re down to seven weeks to go until she’ll be ‘crossing over’
to that next level along with Michael, Rowen, and Tim.
We have a week and a half to go until the
Fourth of July, but since it is mid-week this year; we won’t have a gang of
family home for it this year. We are
still going to have a lot of fun, though, and in addition to the holiday over
the next couple of weeks; we’ll have some birthday and anniversary celebrations
to go along with the summer play days and the work that I want to do in my
lab. I won’t cover everything, but that’s
two of seven weeks down, and when you add in the week we’ll have with our
cousins in town for their annual vacation with us; that’ll cover nearly half of
the time we’ll have left with Cassie before she moves into her townhouse with
Rowen in August – and they’ll take possession of that townhouse – and the one
that Michael and Tim are renting – on August first.
Taking that thought off-track for a moment;
I’ll mention that Ethan and I really love that precedent our big sister is
setting; since we have every intention of following her lead when it’s our turn
– and we may just use those same two townhomes; since Ethan’s sure we can find
other local friends to continue renting them between when Cassie’s done school
and when we’ll start at college.
Getting back to the look ahead that isn’t
quite so far out into our future; we’re not doing any vacations away this
summer, but Mom, Ethan, and I may spend a couple of days in Crystal Springs the
week that Dad’s there for work in July; and that’s another week of the time we
have left with Cassie that’s at least partially covered of the seven. My point seems to be that time is going to
fly while we’re having fun – at a time that I wish we could drag the days out a
bit more so that we could have more time with Cassie and Michael.
Maybe I should talk to them about daily
time-phases to ‘make’ that extra time, but the power that would be needed to
add days or weeks to our summer might be a bit too-much to ask of Mom or
Cassie!
That will be a talent I plan on using when
I’m old-enough to do that too; since it will come in very handy in my lab if I
can do a week’s worth of research at a time in just moments. Note to me – get Ethan to track down
everything he can on the subject when that will be something we can work on;
since we might want to test the limits of that ability. We know that Magi Masters have been able to
speed up or slow down time as needed; but I don’t know what the limits
are. Can time be sped up to the point
where years can go by in an instant – which would appear as though everything
else had stopped to the Magi in that time phase? Can it be slowed to that same degree – which would
make it look like the Magi in that type of time phase were statues to anyone
looking in from the outside? I don’t
know – and have no idea how much power would be required for either.
It might be fun to try and then come out of
it a year or two older than Ethan, though! ;^)
Then again, it would suck if he starts
looking a lot younger than me if I did that too-often; so maybe I’ll think
about that a bit longer. I would not
want to look sixty when he looks thirty or forty!
My thoughts are wandering around a lot
tonight, so maybe I’d better just wrap this up and get some sleep. We did have a good day today – if not very
exciting compared to the last couple of days, and this really awesome birthday
weekend; so I’m grateful for all of that – and thankful for everyone we love
that helped to share all of that happy and fun with Ethan and me. I really need to remember to tell people that
more-often; since we truly are blessed here in our little town!
Ethan and I are also fairly-lucky that Mom
and Cassie picked our town when they moved here, but now I’m really wandering
off on another mental side-trip, so let’s wrap this up; and maybe I’ll spend
some time dreaming about alternate realities for what might have been if they
hadn’t – and Ethan and I had a very different life here; or an equally-odd life
elsewhere. I don’t know if I could dream
of an option where we didn’t exist at all, since I wouldn’t be there to observe
that alternate reality; but then that might be preferable to other, darker
possibilities such as a future where Ethan and I had Hathorne for a last name!
That’d be a nightmare – not a dream; so let’s
not go there; and I’ll end thus update before it gets any weirder!
This is Ehlana Proctor; coming to you live
from what is now my past!
