:smiles to softly as she awakens and rises looking out at another beautiful morning she walks to her small desk and opens her diary and begins to write:

I am feeling much better with each passing day this cold or what ever it is seems to be leaving me, I was able to go to the dome last eve and spend some time with my master and friends... I see Mags and Dan are fussing at each other as always lol funny how some people show there love. My Master is still very smitten with Lady Jane and had me trying to convice her or at lease asking her what it would take for her to take him back....

I did as I was told for it is what I have been trained to do... then later in the evening I heard Lady Vixen telling my master that he does have children and with her ..... It happened before I came to the island but he was very upset.... I do hope he comes to grips with his self and thinks of the children before being too hasty... :closes the book and goes to bathe and prepare her self for her master should she see him this day

~Journal Entry June 3, Jasmin-Rose{AC}

"she wipes tears off her cheek as she picks up the quill and looks at the page thinking back over yesterday..after a long night of tossing and turning and crying....."

"Shaking her head as she begins to write"

Alterio still hasnt calmed down. He wont talk to me at all now. As close as he came was to instruct Ali to tell me to continue staying away from him. Is this finally the end of what we had? And what of Mia and ALkane? Do i tell them who their father really is? I sent him a painting of the children yesterday. They have his looks and his blue gray eyes. He cant deny they are his....

"smiles slightly as she remembers her conversation with Torlin"..

I think thats the first time I have actually seen him really smile since he arrived here. He was very fond of Mia and i think she was of him to, although she liked to pester him. He would like to see her, now that he knows she isnt dead. But i dont know what Alterio is going to do yet. I wont bring them here with him acting the way he is. I Love him but I love my children also. I cant subject them to the ridicule of this place unless I know he is going to accept them and care for them as much as I do.

The Foundling Home for orphans should be completed soon. Alterio says i can have my own cottage on the grounds and has agreed to let me have Charis stay in the cottage with me. The other three cottages will have three children and an adult in each one. When im not staying there, Ali can use the cottage. She runs the orphanage and she loves kids. I think she would be a great mother.

"she lays the quill down and glances out the window at the sunrise wondering what the day will bring.. she rises slowly, very tired after another night of not sleeping.. she closes the journal and gets ready to face whatever the day brings"

~Journal Entry 4 June, Vixen

::She sighs as she looks about the mostly empty Pleasure dome, then looks to her journal, and begins to write::

I wonder, as I have many times before, what exactly does my fate have in store for me.I have found myself wondering this more and more as time passes here on the island. I also find myself sitting in the dome alone alot more lately. I must come in at the worst times.

::She laughs a bit, and shakes her head as she writes::

I also find myself sitting as far from people as I can when there are actually people there. I do not know why. I suppose that feeling of me not belonging is coming back to haunt me.I find myself wordless and sitting usually in a corner, drink in hand if I am not playing my lute. And I have found myself playing less and less lately... again I do not know why.

::She sighs and looks about the empty room again::

Now I find myself almost too nervous around people to say anything.I know these people, but why do I shy away like a puppy with its tail between its legs? I feel so Pathetic....sad. I feel almost as if I was some scared little girl again...but I'm not. I am finally a grown woman and I still act this way? I should be laughing and having fun like the rest, instead of huddled at my own empty table. I disgust myself when I look back upon the days events...I promise myself that that would be the last time and I'd do better the next day, yet I still do the same thing day after day.

::She laughs a bit as she thinks::

Perhaps I should take a friend's advice...and one night dance in the cage at the p'dome. But really I don't want to scare everyone away! That wouldn't help my problems one bit, now would it? But that dreadful picture aside...I should be going...lately I have not been in the best of moods, and wish to bother you no longer with my whining.

~Journal Entry 4 June, Lina Metallium

The sea is bittersweet. Not literally, but in the way that it cares so little for life, but holds such beauty.

Many years ago I was in great love. A rogue pirate stole my heart and whisked me away from the poverty and misfortune I grew up in. He loved the sea, and I grew to love it too. We travelled for many months at a time, stealing at certain ports and living lives of high adventure.

I remember one beautiful night, the stars were shining in the sky as I rest atop the deck of the Nightengale. I was young, 14 years of age, and I stared at the stars above. I felt a strong hand touch my cheek, and I looked to my side to see the one who had rescued me sitting there. He knew not of my love for him, as I was many years younger than he. He looked into my eyes and kissed me softly. Under the stars we became lovers, falling into a deep true love.

The years passed and I grew older. We commanded the Nightengale side by side, lovers til the end. His end came too soon, as one stormy night he was cast aside the ship, falling into a rocky bay. His head fell upon a large stone, and despite my many efforts, he was swallowed by the sea.

This month I was married to my love, ChangWufei, on a beach here in the beautiful land I call home. Though my heart was filled with joy for what was to come, when I looked to the sea I held back a tear. My first true love was there, in the sea he loved so much. After the vows, a new love sealed with a kiss, I waved goodbye to the mighty sea, and to an old love.

~Journal Entry 4 June, Danirat

I would like to introduce myself to each and every one of you... I want to say hello to you all, and I wish for you to know that I live by myself in a large cabin in the northern shore area of the island. I am alone, living wth my pet drgon, Kolem, and I hope I get to meet you all in person exceptionally soon.

~Journal Entry 5 June, Sol Leonhart

"smiles as she watches her daughter sleeping.."

I cant believe she is here. I was shocked when she walked in the door at 'dome yesterday. She has grown so much since i last saw her.

Alterio... he still hasnt grasped the idea that they are his children. He says he will never forgive me for not telling him. Gods i wanted to tell him. I tried to tell him many times. I misunderstood last night and thought he didnt want her here. I was going to take her back to the mainland and stay there also. I cant leave her again. He asked me.. well no he -told- me, she is staying here and so am I. That I wasnt taking her from him again. I guess he is slowly accepting that she is his child. She is all settled in at the his manor now. Im not sure how well this is going to work. I dont want her seeing the tension between me and her father, although she doesnt know yet that Alterio is her father. She will have to be told soon. But i wont tell her until things have calmed down with him. She has been through enough hell in her short life.

"hears her stirring and looks over at her, she smiles as she closes the journal and lays the quill down"

~Journal Entry 5 June, Vixen

::Finally finds time to sit and write in this battered thing::

So much had happend lately I know naught where to begin. I finally have my home finished and have done some decorating. I have decided to make it into a boarding home but I do not when I will have the time to do it properly. I have had one steady customer of late...Darnious..and Dan no longer sleeps near.

I shouldnt have stripped that night in the PD but something had gotten into me of late. I am angry all the time at Dan...He never knew how to deal with my temper and I guess she still doesnt. Then there is Torlin:: gets a funny look on her face:: He only kissed me to prove to Alterio that he was interested in women...but that kiss has started something. He says its only LUST and I use it to make Dan angry. The kiss did make me melt though, and that in itself is strange. If only Dan would do something besides run away.

And Jasmin what I do without sweet Jasmin. She comes and cooks for me. She cleans up after me....that right there is a chore in itself and I can not thank her enough. I need to start paying her a more than fair wage for her help as I was instructed to do so by that pompous peacock.

Just thinking of Alterio makes my blood boil! That man..and one day we will have a re-match and this time I shall beat him.

::looks out the window towards the sea to calm down and puts down the quill::

~Journal Entry 6 June, Magdeleynna Smith

::she yawns as she opens her journal. As she gazes upon the waves, a smile forms on her face. She tucks a lock of hair behind her ear and begins to write::

I had a great time last eve. I was so restless, I couldn't sit still. I ignored any argueing that went on and danced around untill I couldn't anymore. I find it a wonderful change from my usual silence. I suppose I finally decided to be myself, carefree beyond anything. Ah well, I commited myself to no longer sit on my backside and watch everyone else have a good time. If I am by myself, to create my own good time, as I did for a portion of last night.

::She looks to her plain clothes and shakes her ehad::

I also decided to wear dresses more, to start dressing like a lady, rather than some tomboy. Though it will take some getting used to I believe that it will make me feel better about myself and my outlook on life. Besides, one needs change every once in a while, and I haven't changed my appearence save aging, for quite a few years. Ah That's all I have to say. I should stop now before I begin to ramble.

~Journal Entry 6 June, Lina Metallium