@hatsaplenty said: 10.- Nostalgia
The Bard sits at the desk in his bedroom. When he first arrived here, he figured this would be where he does most of his creative writing. He quickly found that he was wrong, the modern style of his room and the desk interfering with his creative flow. He does his writing outdoors now, but this⌠he feels needs to happen in his room. Alone, where no one can find him. He knows this is going to hurt him, and he doesn't want anyone else seeing him hurt. In front of him, on his desk, is the notebook he bought from Golden Ward earlier that day. He'd used his busking money on it, and while he's still in desperate need of staff paper, this felt more right to purchase.
His fingers tremble only a little as he reaches up to pluck the feather pen from his hat. He opens the book, and writes down the first name that comes to mind: Cooper.
The Bard has never had the best memory. He loses information faster than he takes in new information. He knows, as much as he doesn't want to admit it, that the memory of his friends will be gone within a year of him being here. He wishes he could say for sure he'd be home by then⌠but he doesn't know. No one knows. He knows people who have been here for months, for years, and haven't returned home. What if he can never go back? Years of his life, suddenly gone� Every good memory he'd made with the Glidewing crew, with the villagers in town, with⌠with Bradley. Everything would be gone. He's resolved himself to write down everything he can remember now. The sooner the better. The sooner, the less he'll forget.
Bard's hand moves, hesitantly at first, but after that first push, it becomes near automatic. He starts writing stories of Cooper. How they met, how he'd bought him his lute, helped him learn to sew, to cook, to pilot the Glidewing should an emergency happenâ and of course, Bard not quite being able to grasp it. He writes all of his memories, good and bad, though they're overwhelmingly good. When he's done, he flips the page and continues onto the next person, and the next, and the next, and so on untilâ
He's suddenly out of pages. The last thing he managed to write, King Knight, staring back at him as he watches the page blankly.
He closes the notebook. He'll have to get another book tomorrow.