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Ana Meken

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===18th of Raktuber===


Ahh...Today has been relaxing. A welcome change from all the recent adventures. Even the most battle-worn heroes need their days off, because in the end, we're all mortals, and that's what makes it special.

But it won't last forever. Each of us were given a sum amount of money for helping retrieve the statuette of Amascut. 1,000 Gold pieces each! That's way more than I've ever had before! Even when we lived in Ardougne, the most we would see is a cumulative amount of around 100 Gold pieces between me, Olivia and Aleck when we were saving up for something. Me and Olivia decided we should head back home early so we can give some of the money to the family so they can eat something other than just cabbages and fresh hunted meat. This would be enough to last a couple months!

Maybe then, Mom will be more appreciative of my history interests.

Hmm...It's not even been a week since we got here, and already we're leaving...But family is more important than adventure. This will end their needless suffering.

Zakera said she'll be staying here this time, but I'm sure me and Olivia will get through the desert just fine though. We're heading out tomorrow morning.

23-Jan-2014 07:36:37 - Last edited on 23-Jan-2014 07:42:48 by Ana Meken

Ana Meken

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===19th of Raktuber===


I'm writing this inside a prison cell at Nardah. At least they let me keep my journal.

I'm so very confused...

I didn't steal anything! I don't know how it got in my backpack...If I knew it was in there I would have put it back.

When me and Olivia were about to leave town, Kerner ran out from the museum to stop us, telling us that the golden statuette of Amascut was missing. Everyone was surprised, of course, and we offered to help look for it. But before we were given a chance to help, they confiscated our backpacks and found the statuette inside mine. It was definitely mine.

Olivia scolded me for what I'd done, the others were just disappointed. No one believed me when I told them I didn't know how it got there, they just thought I was making stuff up in case I got caught. To be fair, I didn't have anything to prove it wasn't me...I wasn't expecting anything like this, I put everything I needed in my backpack early this morning. Someone must have framed me, but why?

I mean...Olivia does steal...But she wouldn't...No...

I need to think this all over, my mind is a mess, I don't even know if this is all real. Is this just a nightmare?

What do they plan to do with me? No one has told me anything...I've been here since this morning after they confiscated my backpack. It's afternoon now...Only Olivia has come by since then, I tried to tell her I was innocent and that something's wrong, but she didn't say a word. Just looked at me and frowned and walked away-

Hmm... I just heard a door open, and footsteps...It sounds like they don't want to be heard...

23-Jan-2014 07:36:43 - Last edited on 25-Jan-2014 06:49:33 by Ana Meken

Ana Meken

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===19th of Raktuber===


It was Zakera. She knows that I didn't do it, and that Olivia was the one who placed the statuette in my backpack in an attempt to frame me if we got caught. I argued to her that it can't be...my own sister...she wouldn't do that to me...

But she had a good point...Who else would have reason to do that? Only me and Olivia were leaving town that day. She says that Olivia is already planning to leave for Pollniveach tomorrow, too...She seems to be in a hurry...So soon after her own sister gets put in jail.

Zakera has studied ways to investigate crime scenes, so if there is any evidence to prove I'm innocent, she'll find it. But she has to work fast, before Olivia leaves, and before the mayor decides what to do with me.

But do I really want her to find evidence? I'm not sure. If Olivia did do this to me...Well, I don't know what to think...

It's not in my hands, I'm stuck in this cell until whatever events decide to unfold...so I should stop thinking about it, and try to get some rest.

If I can, at least...As hot as the desert is, this cell feels as cold as what Acheron would be...

23-Jan-2014 07:36:51 - Last edited on 28-Jan-2014 04:46:42 by Ana Meken

Ana Meken

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===20th of Raktuber===


Zakera found some evidence, it seems...She convinced the Mayor to give the case a second thought. There will be an informal trial over it later today in the town hall, when everything is brought together. Olivia isn't allowed to leave until the case is over, assuming she's found innocent, anyway.

I fear no good outcome will come from this, whatever side the blame falls on.

23-Jan-2014 07:36:58 - Last edited on 30-Jan-2014 08:00:11 by Ana Meken

Ana Meken

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===20th of Raktuber===


Well...The results of the trial are in.

I can't bring myself to thank Zakera for what she did, though... I might as well be in prison alongside Olivia myself, for all it means.

Zakera found some of Olivia's hair in my backpack, which seemed out of the ordinary since only I ever use this one. Hers is, quite noticeably, different and more elegant than what I settle with.

She also used some broken glass to reveal recent fingerprints on the statuette. When I first touched it in the temple I had gloves on, as did Abigail and Kerner when they were placing it in the museum, since then no one else had touched it as far as I knew.

Yet...Olivia's fingerprints matched the ones on the statuette...So she did do it.

Abigail and Kerner did note the interest Olivia possessed over the artifacts of the museum, and often found her staring at them when no one else was nearby. It didn't seem anything out of the ordinary then however.

When I was called to the stand to tell people of what I knew about Olivia, I hesitated. Despite what me and Zakera had went over before the trial, as she knew what I told her about her theft in the past, I couldn't bring myself to say that.

Instead, I talked about how she always knew what to do at the right time, indeed, she was mischievous, but very intellectual. Whenever she used her skills of secrecy, it was always for the better of people. She helped me get dad's business slips back from that monkey in Ardougne, that she helped me in attempting to disprove a theory that could have been very dangerous about Mr. Runecraft's mysterious book. She helped me and mom make peace between two different sides of the war, something that have otherwise been thought impossible. She even helped us get the statuette in the first place in that temple.

23-Jan-2014 07:37:07 - Last edited on 01-Feb-2014 09:19:08 by Ana Meken

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But most importantly...she saved our lives. If it weren't for Olivia, we wouldn't have even made it to Nardah in the first place. She dragged us into an underground cave in the early morning while we were asleep, to save us from a sandstorm, and outwitted the evil genie that lived there to let us stay.

It didn't help my situation. I could tell the onlookers were questioning why I would say such good things about someone when it would mean that I would have been the thief. People were questioning how someone who saved lives would do such a thing.

But Zakera...Zakera...She ceased the forgiveness of her. She knew I had always kept this journal with me, and wrote in it about any important events that happened. I wasn't expecting her to ask me for my journal to present as evidence, but she did.

Somehow, she knew that I wrote about her gem stall theft in it. She read off the lines I'd written to the mayor, and everyone else. She emphasized the parts where I would say the bad things about her. Olivia was shocked, and I was embarrassed. The way she said it, made it seem like I hated her...

With that, the mayor-judge had made his decision. There was conclusive evidence that I was innocent, and that it was Olivia who took the statuette instead. The justice system of Nardah didn't care about the good things I said about her, it only worked on what was done wrong, not what was done good in the past. Nothing she did in the past justified her theft.

Olivia was taken away by the town guards and put into the cell I was in. I went to visit her and talk to her, but she wouldn't lift her face to look at me. So I sat there for awhile and talked to myself, saying that I would find a way to get her out of there, that everyone deserves a second chance.

Still, she didn't respond.

I returned to the inn, and here I am writing this now...

23-Jan-2014 07:37:13 - Last edited on 01-Feb-2014 09:19:35 by Ana Meken

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Something about Zakera feels different...She doesn't seem like the same, open-minded person I met when we first arrived to Pollniveach. That person would have found a way to keep us both out of jail, this one was intent on keeping her in it.

...

Olivia...I don't hate you.

Even though you did steal the statuette, that doesn't make you evil.

No, I can't thank Zakera, not for this.

23-Jan-2014 07:37:18 - Last edited on 01-Feb-2014 09:20:07 by Ana Meken

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===23rd of Raktuber===


Three days have passed, and not a word has been said by Olivia. I've tried what I could to convince the Mayor to let her out, but nothing will change their minds now.

I suggested that we break her out of prison then, to Zakera, but she said that would just cause more trouble...She says I should take my mind off of it and head home to my family. It's been awhile since I've been gone, and they would probably want to know about the news.

I guess she's right...

I need to leave before I do anything I might regret, then it wouldn't just be Olivia who wouldn't be coming home. Zakera said she'll come with me on the way back to Pollniveach. It wouldn't be safe to go by myself.

...

I'll just visit Olivia one more time then, before I leave tomorrow. I'll think of something to get her out, I know I will. Just not now. Maybe Aleck, mom or dad will know what to do.

23-Jan-2014 07:37:31 - Last edited on 05-Feb-2014 03:27:43 by Ana Meken

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===26th of Raktuber===


How do I start this off... When everything you love in life gets destroyed, and everyone you know betrays you?

Who can you trust?

That might be one mystery I'll never know the answer to.

No, there was no betrayal...Only Amascut is to blame. Amascut the Devourer, the Goddess of Destruction... She was behind this all, and I will never forgive her for what she's done. I may have survived, but I'm still dead.

..***. Runecraft was right, all those years ago...We should have never came to the desert. Never... This could have all been avoided...

Why didn't I listen?

He probably foresaw that all this would happen...That's why he was so adamant...But if he knew, why did he let it happen? No...It's not his fault...No one's fault, only Amascut is to blame...

...And myself.

23-Jan-2014 07:37:37 - Last edited on 07-Feb-2014 05:07:15 by Ana Meken

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I guess I'll try to explain it all...If anyone finds this...if anyone reads it to the end...If anyone puts themselves in my place, maybe they'll understand. Maybe something can change.

I'll try...

When Zakera and I left for Pollniveach, everything was normal, as normal as it could really be, at least. We were prepared for the trip, for any minor nuisances that were bound to come our way, but I could have never been truly prepared for what happened.

Halfway through the day, far away from Nardah already, Zakera happened to ask me how I felt about my parents. I told her that even though they can be a bit weird at times, and a bit annoying. They were still my family, and I loved them dearly.

She clarified, saying she was asking about my real parents.

It was strange of her to ask a question like that, she knew how touchy I was about the subject...I didn't know who they were, or why they abandoned me. If they had no choice, or if they thought it would be better for me, or if they just didn't care about me. Those were questions I always had in the back of my head, if they were to ever be answered, but whenever it was brought up again it would always put me in a bad mood.

23-Jan-2014 07:37:48 - Last edited on 07-Feb-2014 05:07:40 by Ana Meken

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