Note Book 10 Page 3-4

I was up late last night studying my Light Grimoire and I guess I passed out. Mel woke me up rather early this morning because apparently I was writing in my sleep. Sure enough, I had a pencil clenched in my hand and had written something seemingly incomprehensible on the first page of this new note book. Mel was pretty confused as to how I could write in my sleep, but then again so was I. "Maybe you shouldn't write so much, kewpo!" Is what she told me, after which she went about some random housekeeping and I made my way outside the mog house.

While I was writing the usual context on the inside cover of this book, who should happen to show up and loom over my shoulder but Mai. She seemed well and in good spirits. While talking with her I spotted Caenir meandering off towards the Dhalmel ranch. Mai saw me staring in the direction he had gone and said we should follow him.

When we caught up to Caenir he was sitting on the walkway seemingly lost in thought. I asked him if he had gotten any sleep last night and he told me he had. It's good that he is actually getting sleep now... He has been looking like he hasn't slept in days. When I mentioned I had passed out while reading my Light Grimoire, Mai questioned what it was. Caenir and I described what they were and I showed her my book.

Not long after we started talking about Grimoires, Alberic showed up. I think the last time I saw him was in Bastok nearly a month and a half ago. Needless to say, I was really glad to see him after such a long time. But he seemed very distressed. For the first few moments he was around us he merely buried his face in Mai's hair and hugged her, not saying much. But when I asked how he was he put on a large grin and said there was nothing wrong. When Alberic is worried it's very hard not to become worried yourself. He mentioned a Taru girl had threatened to kill him and said that she had a connection of some sort with the Twilight God, Promathia.

After the mention of this Alberic bid us good day rather suddenly and walked off. I've never really seen him so troubled before... It didn't take long before Mai took off after him. Caenir mentioned that this might have to do with the prophecy Alberic made a while back. When I asked him what he thought was gonna happen he said he didn't know but hoped that everything would turn out well in the end. We agreed that it isn't good to stress out over this subject till we learned more. After that Caenir went to go study his Grimoire and I made my way back to the mog houses.

I can't stop thinking now of the different things Alberic has told me since I've known him... How his role is less to predict the future, and more to influence it. How there's not one future, but many... There is one thing he has said that still scares me though. "... You ever prepare yourself for a horrible fate?" ... The real thing that scares me about this is that, no matter how many times I think about it and no matter how long, I can never come up with the right answer for myself...