Virtual Quill

It was with unmitigated delight that I read the response from Ki Oshiro to last week’s blog. I’ll admit that part of the impetus for constructing this receiver into the human world was to possibly make contact with the two friends that Fenton and I had made from that side. (From the reactions of others, it appears that our meeting was depicted in the webcomic that everyone keeps mentioning.)
One of the things Ki said before she and Nick left was to watch for the code name ‘pookel.’ That would identity any message as positively being from her. I’m not sure about the significance of the word, but she mentioned it after I told her that Dad and Kell had met online without knowing their identities.
So, Ki! (Sorry about addressing you in a public forum but so far I’m not able to conduct private communications through the portals.) You refer to Nick as your husband, so you’re married! Congratulations! Sorry to hear about the wedding not going smoothly; I guess every wedding has its own drama. The important thing is the end result.
There’s drama aplently here. Coney’s protective instincts have come to be quite powerful, to the point of saving her distracted grandmother from a deadly predator. Gran professes having had a change of heart about Coney’s omnivorous diet, but I know from experience we’ll have to see about that. Gran is very set in her ways. Still, her best friend now is the wolf Elanor, so she can change. (Of course, Gran probably doesn’t admit to herself that they’re friends.)
We just returned from the big anime convention, where we had a blast. We went in costume: I was Kiki the witch from “Kiki’s Delivery Service” and Fenton was her cat Jiji. Fenton was able to make it appear that our broom was doing the actual flying, Do you have that movie over there?