Dear Diary,


    I''m continuing to make progress on the second floor. All of my pixies now have little fairy houses to live in. I made them functional with magic lights, wood stoves, and comfortable furniture so that they can live comfortably even without me around. They have been hung from the trees so that it''ll be harder for adventurers and wild monsters to disturb them. It''ll still be a while before I''m even done with the second floor, but I want to make sure I''m thinking about their future as much as my own.


    I''ve been filling in the extra rooms I made to house the pixies slowly but surely. I recently made another two challenge rooms. One is based on the game ''two truths, one lie'' and the other is a game of ''capture the flag''. I''m hopeful that the adventurers will be able to make friends with my pixies and enjoy their company during their time in my dungeon. However, I''m also well aware that I may be being too optimistic. It''s hard not to realize that''s the case when some of my pixies outright hate adventurers while others simply have too many stories about their run-ins with less-than-kind individuals.


    I''ve tried asking about what their day-to-day lives were like before they joined my dungeon. I figured that I might be able to show them that bad people weren''t exactly a unique existence as I figured pixies likely have bad apples as well. However, most of the pixies only had good things to say about their fellow villagers and the few bad things they did have to share were so minor I couldn''t help but feel embarrassed for asking. What does a hungry child stealing an apple from a shopkeeper have on entire forests being burned down and entire villages'' worth of pixies dying in a single night?


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    Holly and Willow were royalty of a bigger city, so I had even been hopeful that they''d have better examples. That had been a mistake. They weren''t meant to be the rulers of their city, so they had never been included in discussions of serious matters like that. Instead, they were rather sheltered for their entire lives. The only hardship they really had to speak of was the pressure to join a dungeon or leave the city to avoid the politics related to who should take over the throne. It was, apparently, quite rare for a civil war to start over such things and, instead, it was more likely that the citizens of their city would chase them out for trying to stir up trouble. Choosing to leave on their own was the only way they''d be able to maintain their dignity and hold their head high, but the end result really wasn''t much different.


    Honestly, though, a lot of my discussions with the pixies really put my own life into perspective. They may not have murderers and cultists to worry about, but I don''t have to worry about losing my home or being exiled. The only way anyone can take my dungeon away from me is for me to die in the process. That doesn''t even seem to be a major issue for me to worry about as most of the adventurers I''ve met have been kind, if a bit distant.


    -Violet