Hey-- anyone out there?

Training?  Shit, my mentor has me working my ass off here. This guy is emphasizing on me doing physical training for every hour of mental training, sometimes both at the same time. And he takes me all over the world to get "A complete grasp of fighting in different terrain and weather conditions." I just spent a week in the snow. And I know exactly how you feel on that shadow name bit, trust me. Have to go now, I barely have enough time to come up with anything to share. Good luck, Whitney

Hey Dom, it's good to hear from you.  I wonder how everyone else is doing...

I'm good so far. Sort of got press-ganged into the family business but I'm getting used to it. Had some bad luck in Thailand though... For pot farmers they didn't seem very chill... Long story short I got shot... a few times... more than I should have survived... about half an ak's worth... This mage thing is cool!

Anywho, some monks helped me get back on my feet, helped me with a lot more than that.

Dom, at least your mentor isn't your uncle... or whatever he is... besides being head of the East Coast mob... so yeah no pressure.

Whitney, it's nice to hear from you, keep in touch.

Jesus, Michael.  How are you alive? And...why are you with some monks?

Well, that first part's a little hard to explain... Dante, my uncle-mentor-godfather, says it has to do with my powers... and he seemed interested when I described one of the monks, like he might have been a mage or something...

Oh well, I'm going with dumb luck on that one haha.

 The monks are easy though, there's a lot of them in Chaing Rai. Anyways, I was doing my whole bleeding out in the street routine, (really fuzzy on how I got there from the field) when this monk passed by, he just smiled at me and I passed out. When I woke up I was bandaged up and in a monastery, they even gave me some new cloths. I'll admit, it all took some getting used to but I guess they rubbed off on me... I mean, since I met them, well, it's the best I've felt in a long time.

That's...good I suppose.  I guess we all owe them one for saving your life.  At least you've managed to contact us. I haven't heard from Terrance or Esther.  Although...it's debatable whether Esther's even still alive.

Yeah, it feels weird to say but I really hope she's ok. So, how's it going on your end?

They're fine, I know it. Shit Terrance won't go dowb easy, as for Esther, well she disappeared when we were last together, but I know she's out there. If unable to contact us.

To answer your question Michael things are--just....going on my end.  Nothing particularly eventful happened after Reese took me from my family's funeral. Did you hear? "Victims of a robbery gone wrong". Yea, that's how it went down...
Anyway, I've been hauled up in his house that's kind of in the backwoods, which is kind of nice since there aren't any loud noises.
I'm rambling sorry, it's neither good nor bad. It's just--it's just going...

Going is good, it means you're headed somewhere, it means you're alive

Hardly.

yea yea im alive shesh stop your sniveling Whitney at least your alive.
and you know i wont go down easy Dom haha
everyday i wake up its a new place, training is intense, i mean i do have morris after all and he is wayyyy worse then the Citadel
eventually ill be able to teleport without ripping a hole in the universe and using my friends as a doorway to the Abyss so if you want I'm willing to go a few rounds with one of you pansies sometime

If you don't turn into a paradox conductor yourself

hey that's what morris is working on teaching me excatly not to be but still use it in a controlled maner you know like if one of u is going to die and i dont have time to save you i can just ping you away without messing with the universe too badly

I'll take you on any day, Portal Boy, I'm being trained on how to deal with porters right now! So whose the pansy now.