[Filter: Private]

Oh, Diary, I know that Dette said sooner was better, but I just can't bear to stir everyone into my silly little idea when tensions are still so high over all of this wedding business. And beside, I just can't help thinking that it'll be so much better when Chloe is here. I know that she'll say it's foolish and be positively horrid about it, but if she does, no one else will dare, and it's always so much easier to take, from her. That's just how she is.

I'm sure that when the wedding is over, and before Chloe leaves again, that will be best.

The wedding ...

Within the first two weeks of the month, is what Lord Hasten last said. That could be any day. Any day, Fartgus could be riding up to the gates of our city, with that smile and those eyes. He favours me more than any of the others, he said. Why would he say that, unless ...

... and after Isanae and Tarmon are wed, there will be nothing stopping Fartgus and Chloe. And then he'll be lost to me, forever. And I'll need to put him from my thoughts. I know that, certainly. It is one thing to love another woman's betrothed, and quite another to love her husband. But I simply don't know how I ever could. How I could forget about those times when he's shown me the favour he swears to me he has? How could I ever forget how beautiful he is, how my heart leaps whenever the thought of him comes to me ...

I should put this from me, right now. I should ask after Isanae, to take her find from the nervousness of a bride. Yes, that is what would be proper.

[Filter: Isanae]

I do not mean to disrupt your day, Isanae, but I was curious -- have you come any further in your examination of your magical abilities? We did say that we would ask after one another.