Day 14

Today was a slow day. Not much happened today. The goblin showed up again, and didn’t show signs of leaving so I decided to put him to work. I mostly had him planting a couple seeds I had saved up from the berry bush, it took a bit of convincing, and explaining, but once he got the hang of it he was done pretty quickly. Goblins are good at menial labor, though they have difficulty grasping complex topics. Once he was done I tasked him with watching over the seeds, basically to shoo away anything that tries to eat them.

A little later that day Tiddol brought up the need to name the ugly little guy, she recommended the name Lord Parius The Magnificent, par for short, though that was probably due to the intoxicant she was drinking. I spent the next five minutes rolling around on the ground clutching my stomach as I couldn’t stop laughing. Eventually, I managed to stop laughing long enough to approve of the name.

Later we presented Lord Parius The Magnificent with his new name. There was a flash of recognition in his eyes before he returned to watching over the seed. A couple seconds later he threw a rock into a bush, scaring off a hiding rodent. I gave him a berry as a reward for the Magnificent display of gaurdsmanship.

I am increasingly unsure of how to end these entries, so I’ll just cut it here.

Day 15

Yesterday Par asked me what I had been doing as I was writing in this diary. It was odd, for the most part because I had never heard his scratchy voice before. Without going into too much detail it the exchange ended in me promising to teach him to read today.

When I woke up Par quickly made his way over to me, requesting lessons on reading. Unfortunately, I didn’t have any books, other than this diary, so I had to borrow one from Tiddol. The book was a short story book full of fables.

After teaching him how to sound out all the characters and the meanings of most of the words in the book I set him to reading it. Overall it took till early afternoon for Par to really get the hang of reading. He proceeded to spend most of the rest of the evening reading the short book, pausing constantly to ask what a word or phrase meant, how exactly to pronounce something, or other things of that nature.