09-10-2016, 07:49 AM
In this letter to Khanh:
- Lien gives advice on getting her niece, Thao, to sleep when Thao keeps waking up at night. "Just tie her to the bed. JUST KIDDING!". Lien says Khanh should try making Thao watch a clock: hopefully Thao will get bored waiting for the clock to say it's dawn and fall asleep again. Or Thao will learn to move the hands of the clock. Sleeping toddler or smart toddler, the world can not do both.
- Lien very very briefly thanks Khanh for doing as she asked and writing about something other than Lien's "sort of heartbreak".
- Lien quickly moves onto Kane and writes about the time they went into the tomb, "even more underground than the underground tunnels". She describes the beauty, "And it sounds creepy, but it was honest to gods beautiful. Like an orgasm for your eyes or something. Everything was that teal color I used to want to dye my hair to, and white, and gold. And there were these statues and pillars tall as towers and seriously, it was all underground. Acoustics were grand. And the way you enter is from the top looking down so I was just sitting there, looking at it, feeling small." She talks about how feeling small made her problems seem less like problems. Kind of. She still deeply regrets her actions with the dragon, but Zaira stuff is a dumb thing.
- She talks about how she originally planned to see the tomb with Zaira ages before, and up until she saw the tomb she had felt guilty about abandoning that plan: "I guess I couldn't care any more."
- Lien writes about Kane because Khanh asked, details a brief history of her relationship with Kane, their fights, but his support in the whole Zaira thing, and his attempt to cheer her up by showing her the tomb. "He's ok", she writes, but she adds more about how he was hiding the tomb because he wanted to protect it from looters, and how he was hiding the quote-unquote, "curse" of the town. She compares this to the situation with Zarkaylia hiding Terry's condition and wishes, among other things. She comments on what she feels is some hypocrisy from Kane because when they went to the Aether garden, Kane took something from the remains of a dead person. "It was a while ago, and I guess he's changed. But I don't think him finding the tomb happened after the change."
- Lien expands on Zarkaylia. Writes about the treasure/scavenger hunt the two are arranging. It's what Lien has decided to work on as a bit of a distraction for herself and the town. It wouldn't have been possible if Zark didn't keep secrets in the first place. Writes about the difficulty in finding something that everyone in town would see value in. She asks Khanh for suggestions, then asks what he's working on.