If I am being honest, I have been awake the whole time. Having a brother who is always talking you would think would train you to sleep through the chatter, but I have remained a light sleeper. I can only act like I care about Sil’s hunts, or the two in the front plan through how to optimize storage space so many times. That is the big advantage of the hat, tilt it over your eyes and none are the wiser.

I am being ungrateful though, as Gil wrote “Yet truest bond is friendship’s gentle thread” and having us all together for a trip like this is becoming rarer and rarer. What I have been thinking about though are the new boots I was able to convince Felix to let me buy. They are the updated version of the boots I, and the majority of the crew currently have. The sole on these are a bit more rigid which should help with the rockier terrain I have been running through lately. Really though, the main driver for the new boots are that my current pair are too small. Plus we all know I enjoy being just a bit different than the group.