Jazmee27 
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The Digital Starter Package is an exclusive online offer, which means you can only order it online. Both Mom and I think it’s the most stupid thing ever. It boggles my mind: Comcast can charge $64.45 for Cable if it’s ordered over the phone, yet the Digital Starter’s (29.99 Did someone say highway robbery? Net result: I’m waiting for Mom to get back from the beach.
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Reply #981. Jun 25 12, 8:33 PM
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Jazmee27
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GOING IN TO THIS YEAR'S "PROTECTOR LEGENDS" NOW
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ELIJAH GONZALES
How could she even think that? UNFEELING? ME? I just don’t walk around with my problems on my sleeve, the way she does. And I need time to process everything. Her, though, she just wades right into that lake of emotion and starts flinging mud around in all directions. That sort of thing only gets people hurt more!
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Reply #982. Jun 25 12, 8:37 PM
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Jazmee27
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BHENIYTO GONZALES
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How does one go about speaking about something he’d rather forget? How can he give details of which he’s partially or mostly unaware? These are the questions floating around inside the empty recesses of my brain. They haunt me at night, cause me to lose myself during the day. And, for a time, the need for answers was overpowering. Now, I no longer want to know. But I can’t seem to stop the answers from coming, from slapping me in the face, from changing my life forever.
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Reply #983. Jun 25 12, 8:38 PM
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Jazmee27
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I think, like my cousins, I was born in the kingdom of Scenoria. Surely, my birth name supports this: Aivahri. Due to events which, reluctantly, I will reveal, I don’t allow any of my family or friends to address me by it. I didn’t change my name or anything, just translated it from Scenorian to Qiryntian or Universal Dialect. So I’m known as either Qahsanori or Bheniyto.
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Reply #984. Jun 25 12, 8:39 PM
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Jazmee27
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I have at least four cousins, two or three of whom I should be close to, but relations are kind of strained. It’s a long story, which could take a while for me to tell, especially since every now and then those pesky details overwhelm me. I’m only six years old; what I wouldn’t do for a “normal” life. Of course, I keep that tought to myself, as the last time I said something, I was told that the word means something different. Someone might even have said something about how it’s relative. I just let that go; I’m a bright kid for my age, but more often than that stuff that used to make sense to me before just don’t. It’s like… I don’t know exactly.
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Reply #985. Jun 25 12, 8:39 PM
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Jazmee27
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Mother’s been gone these five years. Seems longer, but… Doesn’t it always? I suppose I blame that man who calls himself my father for abandoning us before I was even a year old. So we moved in to Scenorian Palace with my uncle and cousins—there were two palaces, and both burned to the ground, so which one was this? I can’t remember names; too painful, they tell me.
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Reply #986. Jun 25 12, 8:40 PM
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Jazmee27
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After that first fire, we all moved to this bigger palace, and my other uncle by the name of Orseviyto moved in with us. Of course, that was once one of my twin cousins had been reunited with his father. I always felt slightly sorry for him and his brothers, because their mother died giving birth to the youngest twin. But on the other hand, I’ve always resented them the relationship they had with their father as I don’t remember mine. Years later, though, I felt bad about that, and tried to get closer… But I digress.
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Reply #987. Jun 25 12, 8:40 PM
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Jazmee27
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One of the hardest things to handle was when Maria, one of my teachers, found father was living close by. Not only that, but I have a half sister! She’s coming here to live soon, and I’m still not sure I want her to. I blame her for taking father away. Unfair, I know, but… The worst part is, I’m kind of thinking she might be a bit older than me! But, there again, I have some explaining to do.
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Reply #988. Jun 25 12, 8:41 PM
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Jazmee27
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When I first met Elspeth Carter, I was determined not to like her. After all, she’s the reason—or so I thought—Father left Mom. Now, though, I have to consider the unwelcome thought that *we may have kept him from searching for his daughter.
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Reply #989. Jun 25 12, 8:41 PM
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Jazmee27
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From what I’ve been able to gather, “the woman who calls herself my mother,” as Elsie put it, just up and left her at an orphanage one day. My heart goes out to her because she, at least, was old enough to remember my mother. As to where Sylvano, our father, was… we may never know. He’s gone, left on some top-secret mission. My half sister says she never wants to see his face again as long as she lives, but I know at least a small part of her yearns for him to turn back from whatever duty he feels. And me? I just don’t know.
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Reply #990. Jun 25 12, 8:41 PM
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Jazmee27
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MARANDA GONZALES
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How can it be that he don’t care? Sometimes, I think Eli was from another family, or maybe another planet. He couldn’t possibly be as indifferent or as unfeeling as all that, could he?
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Reply #991. Jun 25 12, 8:43 PM
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Jazmee27
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ONTARIO GONZALES
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I’m not liable to forget the year I turned nine for as long as I live. Which, given everything that’s happened, isn’t likely to be long. But… I’m getting ahead of myself. I tend to do that when under stress. Just start talking a mile a minute and see what comes out. But I guess I should start… where is it? … Oh, yeah—at the beginning. Wherever that is. I don’t know anymore. Too much is happening too fast. Some may call it life; I prefer the word zoo.
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Reply #992. Jun 25 12, 8:44 PM
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Jazmee27
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If I told you how young I am, you’d probably think me nuts. Come on, you say—all that can’t happen to a nine-year-old. In a way, you’d be wrong—and in another, you’d be absolutely right.
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Reply #993. Jun 25 12, 8:44 PM
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Jazmee27
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My twin brother shares a room with me and our “older” brother. You ready for some mind-boggling stuff? See, he’s only half-fey, while my twin and I are pure, which makes *us two years older. I’ll try to explain better later—that is if I don’t have a rip roarin’ headache first.
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Reply #994. Jun 25 12, 8:45 PM
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Jazmee27
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My siblings and I live at this School for Gifted Pupils in a place called England. As if I know what a “Gift” is—though, I guess, due to all that’s happening to me, I’m starting to. It’s all so confusing. Which is why one of my teachers, don’t ask me who, suggested I write my thoughts down on paper. Something about helping to sort stuff out. I don’t know about that, but I’m willing… better than everything trapped inside me, growing more and more nonsensical as time goes on, tearing at my vitals like a slow-acting poison or a cancer or… you get the idea.
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Reply #995. Jun 25 12, 8:45 PM
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Jazmee27
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I was, I guess, a normal kid before I turned nine. Though, around here, such things are relative. All I know is, one moment I was living my own life, minding my own business… and then the universe turned upside down. Not too unusual I guess, but for the pace of things.
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Reply #996. Jun 25 12, 8:45 PM
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Jazmee27
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Memory can be one’s best friend, or one’s greatest enemy, depending what it allows one to remember. Prior to my ninth birthday, there was a whole mess of stuff I should have been thinking about, or seeing, and yet wasn’t. Part of it’s because certain things were to painful *to think of! Instead, it took the hardest struggle of my life before the halls of memory opened up before me.
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Reply #997. Jun 25 12, 8:46 PM
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Jazmee27
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Classes here are, for the most part, tailor-made for the individual. We’re encouraged to “train” to use our Powers the best we can. I thought I’d done this—that is until my twin crept up behind me one day and knocked me out with his Shield Breakers.
Then, there are those group lessons. The pace varies, depending on what the subject is. And the teachers, well, some are easier to be around than others—but I’m getting ahead of myself again. It’s just so hard to configure my scattered thoughts into a coherent story. Everything combined, I’d say it’s downright impossible.
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Reply #998. Jun 25 12, 8:46 PM
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Jazmee27
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One of many confusing aspects about this universe is that, within the magical community there are witches, wizards, warlocks, and fairies. Let’s not even mention for the moment the other beings inhabiting this space… muddy up the waters as little as possible, as the saying goes. Well, those of us from “Fairyland,” as it’s known, age differently than most individuals here. The Pure Ones are two years older than the Halves, as I’ve indicated before in one of my musings, and our supposed age (the number everyone thinks we are) is four years lower than our actual age. If that’s not complicated and confusing, I don’t know what is—and it only scratches the surface. (Actually, the older we get the wider the gap between our ages is.)
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Reply #999. Jun 25 12, 8:47 PM
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Jazmee27
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Mames are another complication, as some of us have as many as two or three. For example, mine are Ontario Gonzales, Qodiehnto Qivrantis, and Orseviyto Orseveyno; my twin’s are Alonso Gonzales, Qorteviyno Qivrantis and Orelio Orseveyno. Alonso’s girlfriend is Anastasia Godunov, but she’s also Rhosthina Dhaseira. One of my cousins is named Bheniyto Gonzales, but he’s also Qahsanori Voliyno and Aivahri Ordevahran. Another cousin is Qydrazimor Voliyno, but everyone calls him Qydra or the Fairy Lord. And if you think first names are confusing… let’s not even go into the symbolism and translation of both first and last names, or how some people are named for their father and some their mother, or how adoptions work, or… So much complexity! And the older one gets… yet again, *more confusion.
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Reply #1000. Jun 25 12, 8:47 PM
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