Day 0, Sadush's Reflective Composition Assignment

Master Alethelasimarithinwyndarethdril
Sadush Seaborn
Remedial Elven Junior Guard Cadet
Fall Semester
Lower City Docks
3½ Dock-End
Reflective Composition Assignment



Topic 4: “On the Gradual Gathering of Grief as We Eladrin Slip by the Centuries into the Waking Sleep of the Feywild, Nevermore to Walk the Snowy Woods of this World ‘Neath the Frozen Towers of Valon”



I feel that this topic applies to me because even though I’m not an Eladrin or Elf or Half-Elf, or a Halfling or Dwarf or anything like that for example a gnome but am only a human and will die after only a few decades unless I am killed in battle defending the walls of Valon which would be a great honor and really is my fondest wish, as the poets say!, except that my tutors have taught me valuable life lessons about life and everything and that it’s precious and we should live everyday as if it’s your last because someday it will be and all the Eladrin kids look bemused and all the Elven kids laugh merrily because they say, “But teacher that day will come long centuries from now and why have a care for anything and why not just take it merrily and have some lambas” but they don’t understand that for certain people there are certain facts about their background that make them different from other people in Valon of the Icy Towers High and Low the Glory of the North and these certain people will not live for long centuries but will probably be killed on patrol by a dire polar bear and even if they don’t will get old and die while other persons who don’t have this certain background are just messing around eating lambas and not taking anything seriously even when it’s stuff that’s important they are laughing merrily like how to do a really effective “tide of iron” rush which is not easy AT ALL and it’s NOT just about being strong because it requires you to judge the angle of your opponent’s weapon to make sure that your shield both a) deflects it above you as you crouch into your approach (the 5th form swordmaster says that if you don’t get “a” right, “b” doesn’t matter and that really cracks me up like every time because it’s true! If you don’t get it right you’ll be killed by your opponent’s weapon and you’re dead! Lol!) and b) ….



… and finally k) you’ll want to kill the ones who are flanking you PDQ then return to first position! I really love Advanced Swords because my guidance counselor says I have a facility with the curriculum, but I have a difficulty with other areas of the curriculum, like Elven no offense Master Alethelasimarithinwyndarethdril, even though I really appreciate the Eladrin and Elves and really all the Fey in general of Valon for taking me in after my ship went down and I was cast adrift and nearly drowned and was freezing to death on the shore and the wolves were coming out of the woods for me and I’m not kidding and boy was I glad to see the patrol, even though they looked at me funny and I didn’t speak one word of Elven and they said that I spoke common funny too with accent of Viridistan where I came from but I sure don’t want to go back even though most of the other people there are humans and have green skin like me so I wouldn’t feel like such a freak but if you want to know the truth most people are really cool about it and say it’s not my fault though they keep making stupid plant jokes like I haven’t heard them like a mess of score of times each which actually relates to what I wanted to say about the topic, which is topic 4, which you know what it is because you gave us the topic choices and they were all very integral but I decided that topic 4 was more integral for me because even though I’m not and Eladrin or anything and stuff but I do know about the gradual gathering of grief because I’ve been gathering plenty of it from Ashleigh Oberholt who is the head of the Eladrin Elite Cheerleading Squad and the Junior Guard Cadets of which I am one were cooperating on battle drills, cheers and mournful songs of the forgotten beauties of ancient Valon though mostly we Cadets just stick to battle drills and cheering which is good when it’s loud because then my accent is not as irritating to others and we were warming up and I was doing alternate toe touches to stretch out and I was holding a bent over position with my butt up in the air and those cadet dress clothes are pretty tight and she comes up behind me and I am sure she was saying something about how I looked funny with my butt out and how it is green, which it is I’m not saying it’s not because everyone knows but she didn’t have to talk about it and she couldn’t even see my actual butt because of the pants and even though she was talking all fancy in high Eladrin with all these “cool” words from millennia gone I could totally tell the kind of thing she was saying and it was all “I’d like to get my hands on that butt” which means she wants to show that it’s green which everyone already knows and boy she is mean and bossy but on the other hand she really knows her stuff because the Elite are very tight and battleready and the truth is us cadets are mostly sort of sloppy but on the other hand they have better equipment and they clean things with magic and we mostly just have to scrub a lot and use fishoil to keep our weapons shiny, which I can hardly smell anymore but other people can and she’s really very beautiful though please don’t tell anyone I wrote that Master Alethelasimarithinwyndarethdril because it would be very embarrassing for me personally in fact I wish I hadn’t said it but I don’t have a magical pen that can take ink away and I can’t really afford another piece of vellum but so I am asking you to please understand and not say anything to anyone and especially not her father who is a really great person and maybe she’ll be more like him later anyway but it doesn’t matter because who am I kidding and that’s my reflective composition I hope you like it and will give me a good grade because I tried hard but please don’t tell her.