As the artist has not gotten back to me yet I have decided to start working on Skeletal Rose.

It was easy enough to do some simple refinement, but beyond that I have no idea what I'm doing. Removing large chunks of the plant always caused it to fail, but I can kind of guess at the function of each peice.

I simply don't know anything about time manipulation, and this plant was designed in a way that makes my usual methods not quite effective. So I'm falling back on the only universally effective method I know and brute forcing it by modifying each little peice in isolation. Of course this does introduce a fair amount of luck to the situation. I will get it eventually, but how long it takes is up too luck. This is having the expected interactions with Fate and is why I generally avoid this method.

It should take no longer than a week for me to figure out what everything does, after that it should only take an hour or so to get too a useable state. And I'm definitely looking forward to using it.

Other than that I spent my downtime hanging out with Junior in her hospital. When it comes to pure skill in healing and flesh manipulation she is my better, even if only by a small margin. It would be weird if she wasn't improving faster than me, she certainly has the talent and she spends most of her time improving herself. I even managed to learn a thing or two from her. I'm proud of her, she is definitely living up to the legacy of her mother and grandfather.

Speaking of that legacy, she has taken a lover. A polite Frost Drake from another continent. I didn't get a chance to really meet with him.

She is wanting to evolve before she had children, and she is getting close to evolving. Her current species is unusually fast to mature, anything she has the potential to evolve into will not be the same way. It will be a very long time before the next generation of Hornmarks becomes prominent, possibly even a decade. I am looking forward to meeting them though, the Hornmark children have always been cute.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.