Hey Diary,

  Maeve is helping me tell everyone about the whole “ground bad” thing! She explained that I need dates and maps and lists, and has helped me set all that up.

  Today we had work in Feetsville. I only had one job, which was to help a group of chickens figure out a pecking order. I did, and recommended the owner get a cockatrice. He wasn’t too sure about that, but cockatrices are really the best at keeping chickens in line, as long as you have petrification antidotes on hand.

  There’s a Runesmith here, so Luke didn’t have a ton of work, but there were a couple things for him to do.

  And Maeve did her auditing thing while Maki stood guard. The mayor was nice to me, and promised he’d read through the file about “concerning tectonic activity” that I gave him. Maeve said he’s been cheating on taxes since before we were born, so who knows. I hope he reads it. Or, I hope he gives it to whoever replaces him when he’s arrested.

  Maki said he threatened Maeve when she gave him the final report, but she threatened him back harder. Maeve can be pretty threatening, but even Maki seemed kinda scared. I don’t think she’s ever scared him before.

  I don’t think she’s scared any of us before. I mean, we’re family. You don’t scare family.

  A case of literary theft: this tale is not rightfully on Amazon; if you see it, report the violation.

  Anyways, there’s been earthquakes every day lately. I don’t know if it’s just because I’m on watch for them, but it feels like they’re getting stronger. Maybe that’s just me, tho.

  Tomorrow we’ll head out as soon as Maeve’s report has been verified. She expects it a little after breakfast, and then we’ll know where we're heading next.

  So far, we’ve been heading towards Default City. I think pretty soon we’ll be ordered to head there.

  And when we get there, I’ll see about getting my hair dyed yellow. Because having pink hair is drawing way too much attention. I don't know how people who only have charm magic do it. Although, if someone kept glaring at me, it’d be pretty easy to put a low charm on them to make them not suspicious of me. …Yes, that would be doing what they suspect I might do, but they’d never know! And then they’d stop suspecting me of doing illegal things. …Because I’d just done an illegal thing.

  This is more complicated than it should be.

  Well, I have permission to use charm magic on animals. And going by the “is it an animal, mineral, or vegetable” thing, people are all animals… When going by “person, place, or thing”, people usually say their pets are “person”.

  I feel like Maeve would be able to find some wording in my permit that 100% proves animals and people are different. Maki probably would be able to argue about it, too.

  Maybe I shouldn’t write this kind of stuff down. It feels like something that might get me in trouble legally at some point. But if I don’t write it down, it’ll just be stuck in my head forever.

  Life is hard.

  Signing off,