As he continued down the mostly empty hall, the young sorcerer kept wracking his brain for some kind of idea of what to do next. [i]So this didn't quite go as I planned. No big deal! Not the best start, but there's still something I can do, I'm sure. What else did those books say...[/i] Stopping for a second, he thought back to one of the latest novels he had read. The main character in that one had dealt with having to explain why his love interest was suddenly in his home when she woke up. But how did he start... 

[color=a187be]"Ah! He brought her breakfast, that's right! It's a little late in the day for breakfast, but maybe a light meal of some sort would help lighten the mood a bit so I can explain properly?"[/color] 

With that decision in mind, he made his way to the kitchen as quickly as possible, figuring that he probably didn't have a lot of time before the girl he believed to still be in the guest room woke up. He wanted to be able to talk to her before she started wandering around and getting lost; this place was pretty large, after all. Not as large as the castle she had come from, but still pretty big in his opinion. It was bit dark in some places as well, but the hallway with the guest room was in the lighter part, near another garden, coincidentally. 

Unfortunately for him, he managed to drop his journal while he was walking. It lay there unnoticed, opened to one of the pages he had written about a month ago. 


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[color=fdc68a][i]Day XX Month X Year XXXX 

I really don't get what my family was thinking when they built this place sometimes. Secret passages are fun, but why are half of them in such randomly inconvenient spots? Honestly, I'm sure I almost broke my leg today falling into one by the stairs...

In other news, I finally managed to find a better way to make the knockout powder I ran out of a few days ago! Finally, this should make going out a lot easier again. Not that I've been able to since the full moon is tonight. There's been a lot of stirring in the past few days, like there always is leading up to the full moon...I could go out, but not without the right precautions prepared. This being one of them... 

I also had a weird dream about that girl again...[/i][/color]