An Unfound Door, Chapter Fourteen

Agnes and Fhiad have a brief conversation with Galien and Caelif before departing from Faloren Castle. Fhiad’s personality becomes warmer and more open as they travel across the countryside. He’s friendly to travelers, and he shares his memories of the university in Cretia with Agnes. In the evenings, Agnes stretches and practices the sword forms that she learned from Mylah, who left the castle shortly after Fhiad’s arrival and hasn’t returned since. On the first night after they enter the northern forest, Fhiad watches Agnes practice and confesses that his magic won’t be useful against what they’ll face in Erdbhein. He asks that Agnes remember him as human before transforming himself into a boar.

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I guess I’m back to writing these chapter summaries. It feels a bit odd to be the only person in my own fandom, but someone’s got to do it.

In Philadelphia we call them yutes

At the risk of sounding like an asshole, I don’t actually feel alienated from “youth culture.”

98% of the time I see something that’s popular with people under the age of 24, my reaction ranges between “that sounds fun” to “good for them.”

1% of the time I get upset that a distressing number of American kids don’t really drink or do drugs or go to parties because they’re under constant surveillance by their parents, who pressure them to go to college, where most of them will be miserable for 4+ years only so that they’ll be buried under crushing debt, and meanwhile everyone else has to grow up with American cultural imperialism because of social media and YouTube.

The other 1% is whatever the fuck is going on with the Chinese internet, which frankly is none of my business. I am respectfully not looking.

Anyway, the context of this post is that the Philadelphia schools were on spring break this past week, and there was apparently a trend of kids riding around on public transportation for the purpose of forming flash mobs to create graffiti art. That sounds fun. Good for them.