Maito Gai | Youth

[There are a great many scratched-out starts to this, illegible.]

Please do not be alarmed if you run into me. I will try to avoid most people.

I may need some days off work, Stoneface. I will come explain. [A pause.] I will come, and then I think I will not need to explain.

[[ooc: And now he's in Hidan's body. Whee!]

I am sorry if anyone has missed me. I did not mean to get injured. But I am recovering! And clearly I am better; they have let me have my journal back! And it is not because I kept asking.

I think I am going to step up my training. I need to. This means that if there are others who would like to learn and train, I could take on more students! When I am doing better. I am not completely back to normal. But I am close enough! I will be back to normal soon!

The wilderness is very nice, for those who have not seen it yet.

The balls are back! Night! Shall we have our challenge again?

To all of my students - I think that our lessons will be in the playground while it is here. It offers a great diversity of activities that we do not often get a chance to work with!

There are some people that have gone. Magi, my student, has left. I think some of the others are known but I do not know if everyone knows. May from the store that has the best peppers. Broom, who was here before. Fracta, who did the tacos. One of the men from the shop that had nails, Courage. Prince, Cassandra, Legacy, Bishop, River, and Breeze are all gone. Oh. Rogue is gone too.

Bell, I do not know if you were on duty or not, but there is a return.



[[ooc: May, Courage, Cassandra, and Bishop are all NPC names. Don't worry, you didn't miss people. ;)]]

I do not know if anyone has the answer to this but I will ask and hope that it is not a bad question - how does something turn from a hobby to a job? That is, paid? I am not asking where the money comes from. I am trying to find out so that Apple can have people helping him and to make sure that the animals stay fed.

Are the walls not working right for anyone else?

Genius? Lotus? I have candy from the Wilderness. Genius, you will have to not be grumpy if you want any. Lotus, it is on the table. Leave some for Genius in case he cheers up. If anyone else would like some as well, I have more than enough!


[[ooc: Someone tried to run up a wall earlier and discovered he suddenly couldn't. Convinced it was him making a mistake at first, he tried several other walls. Repeatedly. Feel free to have your character notice him trying to hide a slight limp or wincing.]]

There is a lot to write.

I will start with the serious first. There are many gone from the Sphere. Six. Alice. Free. Alex. Angelfish. Alex. Bunraku. Butterfly. Light. Law. Walk. Sage. Snap. Another Alex. And Stardust. The ones that were already announced are Crow, and Burn, and Code. I am sorry.

I am stepping down from Scavenging, Bridge. I think I want to spend more time with the people that are precious to me. Thank you for being a good boss.

Cara? Is the weapons stall able to repair a belt? I found it a couple of weeks back and have not had time to come by and get it fixed.

Does anyone know about the tickets that showed up before? I was given one in the parade, and do not know what to do with it, or where to take it.

Lotus, Bell. If you are both off tonight, we should have dinner together. I will help, but I will not insist on doing most of the work.

Fred? I will be late getting to the Yard today. Please let me know when you read this so I can ink it out. I am sick and Bell is threatening to tie me to the bed if I go to work, so I have to wait until he has------- [There's a streak of ink as the journal is taken away from him.]

[The entry continues in Bell's handwriting.] Actually, Fred, Youth can't come out to play today. Sorry. Though, you're welcome to stop by the house for your discussion. Oh, and could you bring rope, please? I seem to be out.

[The journal winds up being tossed back into Youth's lap, and his handwriting resumes.] Being out is a good thing. Do not help him. Please.


[[ooc: Youth has a basic cold/flu, nothing serious, just severe enough that he feels miserable and feverish and stubborn.]]

Truth! I must thank you for offering to give my son a place to stay when he arrived, but he has decided to stay with us.

Bastet and Crow and anyone else who knew Lotus from before, he is back! My son is here!

Genius. Those were a lot of games.

[There's a red-brown thumbprint smear from Youth opening up his journal.]

I have figured out metaphors, I think.

I can see the blood, so it is not missing, but it is lost.

And now my snowangels are messed up. Which way is medical again? I think I am turned around.

Has anyone seen a hamster or an owl running around? I am trying to convince Bell that my owl did not eat his hamster, but both are gone! Not that I miss my owl. I do not. He did not like my exuberance. But it was nice to have company!

I am also looking for tips on repairing a roof! This week will be windy, or so the forecast said, and I would not like to lose what remains.

Also, there is not an ice hotel any longer. It is now a dome thing! It seems an excellent place to train!

[Added in later:] I HAVE TRACKED DOWN HOW TO GET CUSTOM CLOTHING! AT LAST! And I have ordered clothing! Soon I will be properly attired for training!