Almost a year after arriving in the village, Ethan Winters has done the unthinkable--he touched the fungal root, seeking help with defeating Miranda. He now carries a piece of the Black God inside him, allowing him unforeseen knowledge, power, and...
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Ethan's Journal
September 30
Donna's doing better today. She had trouble seeing and walking after whatever the hell Karl and Moreau did to her. I wish they would have just let me handle it. Still, she's recovering, and Evie's been doting on her so it's okay I guess. After the surgery Karl came up to smoke and his hands were shaking. Never seen that before. I'm not going to let them do that to Salvatore, there's no point. I'll just sneak up from behind him and take it out...I'm just biding my time until I show them that I can actually do it. I also plan to check on Donna myself soon, just to make sure there's no lasting damage. (I don't know how to do that, but the thing in my head tells me not to worry about it-it can be done.)
Karl is still mad at me and hasn't talked much this week since I brought up the fact that his brother gave his one chance at preserving his own life to MIRANDA. I'm still mad about it, so he can stay quiet for all I care. He's been in his own room every night, probably obsessing over that stupid key, or some other mechanical thing. I think he likes them because they don't talk back. So he has nobody to challenge his thoughts.
We buried Colm's crystallized body last night....well, our group minus Donna, because she wasn't able to walk that day. Godric said 'somewhere beautiful', and I figured he'd want to be far away from the castle, since he was imprisoned there. We chose a spot by the waterfall. Close to where we had Eva's ceremony. Water is supposed to make the Mold's powers stronger. Plus....can't see the castle from there. It probably doesn't matter since he's hundreds of years dead, but you never know around here. I thought maybe he would get absorbed and appear or something "magic" would happen, but nothing did. I really hope there's some way for him to be reunited with the King.
Guess what? No fucking purifying crystal in his tomb. Because OF COURSE nothing is ever that easy around here. I was so mad. The Black God was madder. Now we have no other leads on where it might be. I'm not sure it's necessary to defeat Miranda, but things would be really bad if she found it before us. And she's really trying.
Eva was really intrigued by the crystal on the tomb crest though. It's one of the original crystals in the ancient root (she was shocked I knew that) So we have that one now, but none of us can touch it. Karl had to pry it out and it made his nose drip with black fluid. He put it in a magnetized box and carried that, but it still hurt him somehow. He said energy was moving through the magnetic field. That thing is more dangerous than the explosives Chris brought. It's in a locked safe in our basement.
Alcina came with us to the castle when we unearthed the underground chamber, but she didn't stay after. She more or less locked herself in the castle. I told the others about her plan and they were really upset. Well, Karl wasn't upset...he was quiet. I think Donna and Moreau have been brainwashed by Miranda into thinking their lives are only worthwhile if the Lords are all together.
