1:33 am
MOOD: tip top
MUSIC: Shine [Newsboys Remixed]
Mr. Wendal (Arrested Development)
Angel (Shaggy)

We have so much snow it's great. A bunch of us Ferrinfolk went over to Nyland for pancakes and also to pick a fight, and at first they were just watching as we were slaughtering each other, so then when we came inside Nyland and by that time they'd all gone outdoors, so when we went outside we got slaughtered.. We outmanned them but they definitely outgirled us.

and no school today! today as in, i'm writing from twelve at night, so after i go to bed, it will still be today when i wake up, but you know what i mean, so i'll shaddup. And now a word from our sponser:

Raspberry Peach Snapple: there is a bottle of it, empty on my desk. It is staring at me, pleading, get more snapple, so you can drink it and give me friends to sit on your desk with! It implores me to drink more and more, but i am on some sort of self-induced overpriced drink diet. I will now only get fountain juices and never any pop from the pop machine unless it comes free with my shift. Or water. And i should buy my own milk too.

Public Safety gave us no end of trouble today when we were snowballing and tussling around on the fulton hill/sidewalk. We cleared out of the way for them, and they went up and down the hill for some reason, in and out of the parking lot, and finally 2 people threw snowballs at the car, and then it EXPLODED kind of like the Nerf Arrow incident. But it was all okay.

As Pati and King Robert sailed for home, their ship was overrun by a band of zealous riot pirates, whose life's purpose and sole aim was to scourge the high seas and deliver packages worldwide for a small reasonable fee. Upon capturing the captain (and this was possible due to the pirates' sheer numbers), they looted their hold and held the entire crew at gunpoint.

The pirates took no prisoners, except King Robert and Pati, who were kept in chains in the galley of the lead of the pirate fleet. There they were starved for 3 weeks, and at the end they were let out into the sunlight, still bound. In the hot southern sun, they were stood to face the Pirate Captain.

King Robert had secretly loosed his bonds, and was ready to make an instant escape--when the time was right.

Then he recognized two figures emerging from the captain's quarters. Recognizing the taller of them, he called out in rage, "Captin John Bohall! My first mate and right hand! This is how ye treat an old comrade?" Bohall strode up to Robert's face and glowered in return, "As you taught me: kill mercilessly and always get the job done," with a sneer on his face.

Robert eyed his old mate warily; "what is your job this time? certainly not plundering and delivering the jewels of the Queen of Outer Noth to some rouge band of merchants?"

At this Bohall let out a hearty laugh, "Certainly you wouldn't suggest something so unworthy of a riot pirate! We are going to collect the four-hundred-fifty Gold Ruble bounty for bringing you in DEAD!

A bright flash that nearly blinded Robert and Pati lashed out from behind Captain Bohall! The captain whirled around in shock -- and his head was promptly removed from his neck by that shining blade. Squinting and averting his eyes was the only way King Robert was able to look upon the brilliant figure with the sword brighter than the sun.. the figure was the likeness of the small cabin boy who had been bringing him his scant serving of stale bread-crust every day.

The figure maintained a casual swordfighting stance, glancing about here and there at the fleeing pirates, then sheathed the terrible blade, and in a voice that rent the skies and made the ocean depths tremble, he spoke an unrecognizable word, and as King Robert looked on in wonderment, the small boy lost his brilliance, and faded from sight even as Robert tried to fix his eyes upon him.

The angry skies flashed, and the tropic oceans broke out in a hurricane-scale storm. As soon as King Robert had quickly freed Pati, the two of them found themselves trapped on the ship, which they saw was in the grips of a collossal sea monster with numerous writhing appendages, each splintering the ship and pulling it down with it into the sea.

And so Pati and King Robert were dragged into the dark reaches of the Shamrock Sea, a wide and vast and terrible sea merely on the surface, but increasingly serene and peaceful down in the dark depths.

As in a dream, they descended, for neither of them could imagine that they could hold their breath for the duration of the fall, and yet as they hit the bottom, they were thoroughly conscious of their own ability to walk around and breathe, even under the waters of these depths.

Seeing that the immense sea beast had gone, Pati and the King searched the ship until they found each other, for they had become separated in the sinking. They came across the bodies of numerous pirates, who were entirely unable to survive the depths. At this gift they were thankful, and they agreed that it was likely the small cabin boy, who was more than he seemed, who had granted them life under the sea.

King Robert suggested that perhaps they should clear away from the fragile ship, should it become unsafe. Then each of them tried, repeatedly to swim to the surface, but the distance was far too great, and they always ended up back on the bottom.

Robert then suggested that he and Pati should make for the coast, to the north.

They journeyed until the sun above the sea was setting, and then they found a sea cave, in which they could pick out distant noises. The noises wrought fear in King Robert's marrow, he could not venture further, but to Pati the noises were as lovely and melodic as the singing of the birds. Pati entered the cave, finding a staircase. Enchanted, she climbed down, all the while searching for the source of the lovely, cheery melody.

Robert was overcome with a maddening, inexplicable terror! The haunting noises pervaded and soon controlled his mind, paralyzing him and turning his courageous heart to jelly! But inside the cave, down the stairs Pati still searched. Descending into the mists, she came upon an arched doorway, fair to the eye, golden and artfully decorated with depictions of a happier day not long past..

Pati could hear a fair voice inside, but the words of the tune she could not make out.

Just then the grip of fear was gone from King Robert, and he rose to his feet quickly.

Pati gave the door a push, and it slid open..

Robert grabbed his sword, which he had cast aside in terror, and charged into the cave

She was snatched inside by a massive claw, and the door slammed shut with a deafening echo..

He arrived 2 seconds too late.

more next time.

peace, out