Greetings from far far away. I hope this finds you well. I am in the inn, in between doings, and it occurred to me that I hadn’t really filled you all in on the whole monster situation, so I’m taking a quick moment to remedy that.
I don’t know how much you remember from my last note, but a few townsfolk were wagging their tongues ignorantly, and about me. Two poorly bandied accounts stood out. The first had me running silly from a beast that I ended up capturing accidentally. Ridiculous. When I run it is awesome, and when I capture, it is epic, not haphazardly. Now, the second account had me just discovering the beast, and- well I’m ok with that image. Anyway, I’m not confirming either. I only mention it to contextualize the following:
The townsfolk may decide that they need to trespass in order to kill the beast. All based on hearsay! No! It ain’t right!!! I know. Maybe I needn’t worry since it would be dumb of them to think that I have a mighty beast handy and then to come looking for trouble. But then again, I can’t count on people acting smart, especially in groups. That would be dumb of me. (It would also be democracy… but I digress.)
As for killing the alleged beast, I think the first account/rumor affords them a better case. One could try to say that since the beast was trapped, there’s an obligation to either free it or put it out of its misery and that since freeing it would endanger others…. well you can connect the dots. But this forgets that the collapse was not my doing! And it assumes the beast is not sentient. That brings up questions about its rights and ultimately makes the right course less clear. (Again, I’m not granting that there is any truth to the story. at all.) This all looks more like an attempt for prying eyes to break into my land under the guise of justice… I guess you find out who your friends are.
One other thing that troubles me in all of this… Actually, next time. I have to get back to the daily grind. Literally. The mill stopped, and I have to investigate.
-Pen