So… I was robbed today. It was… Really really scary.

I woke up when it started getting bright here, and I was all bleary and sleepy, and it occured to me I ought to use a spell to fix the jet lag, so I did. That healing light/rejuvenation one worked well, I’ve been keeping a list of them on my phone. Anyway, so I went out and was trying to get the lay of the land, where I should go to do most good, and whatever. I didn’t really have a plan, I never really have a plan, I’m starting to think that I really ought to start planning. I wrote that translation spell Zaelong did in pen on my hand and that helped majorly.

But I’m trying to avoid the real subject here, which is that after an hour or two, I walked past this convenience store with guys loitering around out front. And, uh, I was the only white person on the street, and I was wearing normal clothes which to them must have screamed “rich foreigner” and I don’t mean to sound racist with the bit about being white I really don’t but I’m pretty sure it made it obvious that I was an easy target and.

I’m sorry, I’m getting upset. So go back and edit Addie, you idiot, this isn’t a realtime conversation! But I don’t know that feels disingenuous so I’m leaving it in.

The point is, they followed me. And it turned out they had guns, like two of them did, and the other three had knives. And they took all my stuff and left me crying and very very scared and there were people all around and they just didn’t care or more charitably they were too scared to step in. I could hear them contemplating raping me, whether they could get away with it, because they assumed I couldn’t understand them if they weren’t speaking English. But they didn’t, because the old fortune-telling lady came down the street on their phone and they thought she’d call the police. So I’m there, in shock, and she comes right up to me and says “I know it’s hard, dear thing. You’ll weather this storm.” And she takes off her purse and puts the phone in it and hands it to me, and I’m just standing there not reacting and holding her freaking purse and she just… walks away.

So I’m not sure how long I was standing there with her purse but no one else bothered me. And eventually I just turned around and went back to the hotel and just… curled up in a ball on the bed for a while. And then I got ahold of myself and looked at what was in the purse and it was exactly the same amount of money I’d had, and a phone set up exactly the same as mine, qunder my account and everything, and it’s like it never happened except I have a different purse now. So I wrote this.

And the magic book had a new message, which I’m putting here:

“Pastor gloriosus Misericors rector Auctor conseruator Pacificus dominator Deus pius Dominus pacificus Arbiter magnus Auctor imperator Immortalis excelsus Immortalis iudex Pacificus redemptor Illustrator magnus Excelsus imperator Misericordissimus creator Sapientissimus rex Opifex pastor Gloriosus misericors Fabricator conditor Gloriosus rector Gubernator deus Rex sapientissimus Gloriosus rex Omnipotens clementissimus Pastor rex Clemens aeternus Magnus clemens Rex piissimus Illustrator imperator Imperator illuminator Excelsus imperator Incompraehensibilis optimus Sapientissimus opifex Piissimus dominus Sempiternus aeternus Magnus clemens Sempiternus sapientissimus Rex consolator Omnipotens

ZKULU’A MUTPFPC FP ZKU AVTEUA, TPQ FP ZKU TJVKTHUZ.”

And yes, I’m looking up those protection and combat spells. I feel like an idiot.