My first post from the hospital

I have a new DS. It's an old clunky preowned thing, pink of all colours(they had nothing else), and the touch screen seems to have seen better days, but it was cheap and it works. I think it was Rinoa's before mine, though I've no idea how it got here. I can just see her now, sitting on the floor resting the little handheld against her knees, tapping away at the touch screen, playing Pokemon Diamond.

Revenant Wings. I am enjoying it-the aegyl are strange folk, perhaps the strangest mortal people I've yet met, and trying to figure them out is interesting if worrying. They are what the viera pretend to be-different and apart and aloof. Not from thinking themselves better than humes so much, but simply from not being interested in them much. Viera remind me of Nobodies inasmuch as they insist, loudly and often, that they are different, but their actions give the lie to it. And while there are runaway viera in droves, whoever heard of a runaway aegyl? The Yarhi, too, are strange. I like the odd little family Shiva has-a paramour that looks a little like Squall and a little like Howl, and a son(I think)with a scowly little face, and I was tickled to find that there are Cu Sith-about time there were cooshee to balance out the equation.

(Once long ago I saw it spelled like that, cooshee, but I don't recall where or when. No matter.)

The aegyl live for such a short time; part of me can't help but be horrified by that, though I know they're used to it and it seems perfectly all right to them, but part of my hindbrain can't help but see death at forty as monstrously unfair, as a kind of species-wide terminal genetic disease, as being cut down in ones' prime.

The more sensible and sarcastic portions of me wonder whether this is what Fran feels like all the time.

Vaan is Vaan, as ever-little quick-foot, sandhair moppet, and Pen is Pen, Penny-low, Penny-lane, and I'm reminded of the Wendy comment Athene once made because in some ways I'm reminded of Peter Pan in Scarlet...

Their banner is white, with crossed galbana lilies. It is the perfect name for the ship, the silver-wasp-angel-dragon who I am sure thinks and feels as much as any of her crew.