After reading Jewell?s letter requesting she keep up with gossip the cowgirl knew that could present something of a problem since the times changed so quickly in RhyDin and more specifically in the Inn. She didn?t want to disappoint her friend and so to kill two birds with one stone she came up with a brilliant plan.

She would simply write the Empress a note each day describing events that she knew about using pages sliced out of the back of the black leather journal that had made it a habit of constantly staring at her accusingly from atop the desk!

Then when she returned Des could simply hand over the package and she could catch up at her leisure. ?Perfection?, the cowgirl thought to herself!!

May 27

I don?t have a whole lot of gossip for today because I didn?t spend a whole lot of time in the Inn cause this was one of the nights that I Called in the Arena and then I had a little mishap but that is part of the gossip so I?ll get to that in a little bit Empress.

Talomar and Tara came in and it looked like they had no idea who each other was. But they were sure enough getting it on with each other right quick like so I say that only proves my point about hearts knowing what they are talking about and that people should be listening to them.

Sid and Chris were tending bar tonight and you?ll remember from last night I introduced Topaz to Chris and he was skunk drunk and I had to slink off because it was just horrible! Well tonight he was sober and they was talking and getting along just fine from what I could tell.

Arts was there and so was Glans they talked just a little tiny bit but I didn?t get what about I?m sorry to say.

That Magenta that knows Alma stopped by and was chatting up Juleta it looked like to me but who knows with Magenta what is really going on. Juleta is so quiet most of the time that I was very happy to see her visiting with someone even if I am not so sure about who she was visiting with.

Oh my goodness! Talomar must have been in one of his ?moods? because I am just sure he was going to try and collar me tonight. I went and hid in a booth with Kyndra and Icer watching him for me and stayed with my mouth shut until him and Tara left. That is all I need Talomar collaring me when I?ve got this here wedding planning and 4 jobs and my beloved Gav. There would be an all out war I?m thinking. Not to mention he would have to kill me but that is another story.

I don?t know what is going on with Sid but something is. She hasn?t been the same since the Pix has been gone and actually even since just before Spring started getting here. You might be understanding it better being Fae yourself Darlin?. I?ll try and listen better but she just isn?t herself lately and it seems to be getting worse instead of better.

Que was there for the first time in a very long time that I have seen him and he shattered a glass in his hand! I sent Icer over to check on him as I was busy introducing Gav to Topaz who come to find out had never in all these here years been officially introduced to each other!! Can you believe that!?!?!?!? They knew of each other and had seen each other time and time again but not once actually been introduced. Go figure. But I fixed that up right proper for them and now they know each other just fine.

I did get a chance to talk to my Boy Toy (your brother Brian) about him and Charlotte and they got things patched up and are back together again. I didn?t ask him if they have set a date for their wedding as I was just happy to hear that they are engaged again. I?m thinking about busting some heads as there are some nasty rumors going around about him but he reassured me that bad publicity is better than none so I?m gonna just wait and see what happens for now.

May 29th

Dearest Empress my good friend,

Gossip for ya is a pleasure! I saw so many people in the Inn tonight it was a treasure trove I?m telling ya. Alex was there again and he is looking pretty rough but refuses my help. I don?t understand it but since you have been gone he has been coming in in the dead of night and getting stuff from behind the bar and then leaving again. He don?t talk to nobody or really DO anything. He always leaves money to pay for the things that he gets though which is more than most people do in this here town.

Our friend the Vixen was there and there was this very handsome Native American looking TDMF male that came in that went over to where she was but then that thing called Magenta showed up and mostly took over Charna?s time it looked like from where I was. I don?t know what they were talking about but I did see kissing going on!

Lucien was there for a while and I thought I saw Alysia but I am not sure about that because I was a little bit busy with Gav and all because you will never guess what had happened!!! Elijah has returned!!! What we all thought was his son has turned out to be a clone and his soul was actually in that sword of his and has been restored so the Welsh Highlander is back among us!!!

Him and Gav had a lot of good times in the past it would seem and they was just a talking and a talking and I was paying attention to them and Topaz and that girl I told you about turns out her name is Kathleen but she likes her friends to call her Darling and Elijah has given her a job at his Cantina and guess what else!

She wasn?t just someone that had been beaten she was a slave but now she is free and is a little uncertain how to go on but we are all going to help her to get used to being free and get her settled into a normal life.

Danae was there but I didn?t see Dana and I do wonder how she is doing because she was having them spells where she would just get this real high fever and drop over into a coma and I know that Danae loves her something fierce in case you didn?t know that yet Empress.

Icer was there but I didn?t see Authur or any of the little ones last night. She was visiting with AJ who it sounds like is seeing Misty! You do know Misty don?t ya? She has the cargo hauling service and is so much fun to be around. She loves chocolate milk in case you are tending bar and she comes in. Make it with extra chocolate for her please because she is very nice and would help anyone that needed it.

Let?s see... Oh yes, Jodiah came in but I couldn?t get him to let me get him a drink for love nor money! And he really pays too as I?m sure you know. He said he had to work in the morning and mentioned something feeling funny but those weren?t the words that he used exactly. Maybe something is going to happen, people have been acting kind of strangely again lately. Only time will tell though and I have so much to do that I can?t let it worry me too terrible much right now.

Sylvia and Shy and Brian got into a discussion about him being my Boy Toy and just what exactly his duties as such entailed. Well he called me over there to explain it to the ladies. I will tell you Jewell that your brother is the very best at his job that I have ever had in my whole entire life!! It took me some time to explain exactly what it is that he does for me but I got it all said and Gav even took notes.

Gav was thinking about putting himself an ad in the paper for himself a Girl Toy just like my Boy Toy and I done told Brian to get his crossbow ready to weed out the ones that applied that were not the absolute best because my man deserves only the BEST Girl Toy available. But then my TDMF male said I was all he ever needed and I swear I just melted right then and there.

One of these days I am going to have to show my beloved what I have learned over the years to se his mind at rest. We just have been so very busy with grieving over the lost of Jean together, moving on with our lives and my work and his supporting me at the Inn, the Arena, the Outback and now Battlefield Part which I will tell you about in a minute and also with the wedding that is merely a formality to us each as we would spend the rest of our lives together married or not.

But the council has their little fits and their fancy pants set on a state wedding for the King of Westridge so here we go! Can you believe that I am really going to be a Queen? I still can?t even with all these lessons I have been having with that snooty Miss Partinger. But that ain?t gossip so let me get back to the good stuff for ya.

The Outback where I call for the fist fights got burnt up again and this time by one of the callers during a challenge match for an Opal. The current Opal holder fell into the fire and if that wasn?t bad enough the caller decided to summon a shark to also attack them. Now my Boss is being sued apparently by the person that fell into the fire and got attacked by the shark.

He is thinking of cutting back on staff because also during another challenge match for one of the other Opals the two fighters busted up the place and haven?t offered to pay for any of the damages yet. Now I was at this here one and it was a good fight!! They did bust up the place a bit I must admit course the patrons of the Outback are a pretty rough crowd. I guess that may be where I get it from. I did used to hang out there ALL the time.

Now we are using Battlefield Part at the home of Baron E(Silent) for the fist fighting. I did write my Boss Matt a letter reminding him that I never did let any of them fighters get out of hand on my shift cause I?d bust their heads first and they all know that about me and they behave when I?m a calling.

My friend Rena from the duels is going to be coming to the Inn. She hasn?t been there yet and I think you will like her when you get to meet her. Delroy was a fighting and Kaja came and fought. I like watching her she is really smooth in the rings. Joku came by but he did not fight this night. But it was a very long night because I only had three duels to call in the three hours I was there. I wish more people would come.

I would like to find someone for Delroy but he is always so busy fighting that I doubt he has time for woman in his life. I may find him one anyway though and just see what happens. Art came out to the Park and took my Gav off to the side and they were over there for a very long time talking about men stuff I reckon. Gav didn?t tell me what they were talking about so I don?t know.

Skyler came by when Gav was asking me for a kiss and asked me for one himself. And he was polite about the asking even. Said I could blow him one if I wanted to. He was in a very good mood and I was so happy to see him in such a good mood that I blew him a kiss. Well he caught it and pocketed it then skipped back out of the park.

More tomorrow!

May 31

Dear Empress Jewell,

Last night was ?Katie bar the door night? for my Beloved and I.

We locked the door to 42 Cranapple St. And told the rest of the world to take a hike. Not all of them were listening though apparently but one of the bobby traps I had set in place at the top of the stairs by our door did its job and they ran off just a screaming bloody murder.

I really, really, don?t like that treasurer in the least although I must admit I would have been happier if it had been that Miss Partinger it had caught unawares. I do have plans for her just as soon as this here wedding is over. I am going to locate the most remote, inaccessible, coldest region in Westridge and have her relocated there as a nanny to some snot-nosed little brat.

Anyway Gav and I decided that we deserved a night out of the public eye and took a bottle of champagne with us out onto the balcony along with a couple of glasses and snuggled up together in our swing. It was blissful We sat and talked for hours about everything and nothing.

There were candles and soft music and most of all my Beloved was there with his arms around me while the world just passed by beneath the balcony of our cozy little apartment. We didn?t have a care or worry, there was just us.

I hadn?t realized how much I needed a night with just the two of us and no one else around. Not having to worry about always being smiling and happy go lucky and carefree. Having my attention 20 places at once. I love it when I am out there doing it because I am so used to it and would be lost if I didn?t do it but this night was pure heaven.

I am so lucky that Gav enjoys being out and about just as much as I do. He has just as many friends as I do if not more which makes life so easy for both of us when we go out. Not to mention he makes friends as easily as I do when he doesn?t know people. I seriously doubt my heart could have chose a better man to spend the rest of my life with.

Well this isn?t really gossip so I?ll end here and hopefully have some for you tomorrow since we have the Overlord challenge on our social calendar to attend.

Empress,

There ain?t no amount of gossip I can tell ya right now. I am so busy that I am meeting myself a coming and a going and in the middle in between.

Your brother and Charlotte are definitely getting hitched and they is just awaiting for you to get back. They almost done did it in the common room just the other night but my Boy Toy really is wanting you there so they is gonna wait for ya to come back.

Other than Vanion almost a killing me the other night by setting fire to the Annex which he is now claiming that he didn?t do and that that poor Dimitri did and I got to tell ya that it is right strange because I am hearing that that Dimitri is admitting to some folks that he did set that there fire when I seen with my own two eyes that Vanion did it and I was almost killed and he did threaten me and is claiming that he didn?t.

There ain?t too terrible much that I have seen going on around here because I have been so caught up in trying to get everything ready for the Royal Wedding. I?ll tell you what when you and that there really nice guy Skyler are finally ready to get yourselves married RUN OFF!!!

Do NOT let some council tell ya any different either. Don?t let some high faluting hoity toity little miss thinks she knows it all and her you know what doesn?t stink tell ya any different either!!

Of course I don?t know that you have any cats that would shred important lists and you probably already have very nice manners and know how to go on in high society just fine so you wouldn?t have to put up with well let?s just say she isn?t going to be around for long after the wedding.

I bet you wouldn?t even have to worry about where you were going to find over a hundred towels and figure out a way to disguise just why you were needing them there towels for all your guests too.

But Kyn my Maid of Honor she is a sly one and had it all figured out real quick-like for me thank goodness! We is disguising their real purpose by calling them Wedding Favors and they is gonna be real pretty too.

Dana is luckily able to get that many and some extras because since my oh so precious Little Kali Kat destroyed one of the lists I had to go and post the invite in the town square to make sure that everyone that should have been invited got invited. I hope and pray that everyone saw the invitation because I don?t want no war and I don?t want no hurt feelings neither.

And then there is the music that has to be picked out and then your brother who is giving me away reminded me that there was supposed to be a rehersal of some kind before and what was he supposed to wear and then there was my dress and the material and there was the flowers and that dang nab it treasurer that will NOT leave me ALONE!!! About what costs how much and where did I get it and did I price it elsewhere first. Like I have time to be going from shop to shop right now.

Then there was Gav having to hurry back to Westridge during the first of the week about some kind of business that I didn?t really understand because I was so busy trying to get this here Royal Wedding all put together and if I had slowed down any and gone with him this here thing would never be done all on time and as it is now we are just now getting around to asking someone to perform the ceremony for us!!

I swear if we was moving any faster we would be going backwards Empress!!!!!!!

Anyhow as you can see I ain?t been having time to be gathering gossip lately but after this here wedding is over maybe then things will die down to a dull roar at least.

Miss you!