While I didn’t get any Monstervore writing done on my recent trip like I’d (perhaps foolishly) hoped, I’m making great progress now that I’m back in the saddle…

She comes running up to me across the living room. “Daddy,” she says, excitedly. “Daddy, I’ve made a legend book!” She thrusts a folded sheet of paper folded into my hands. She’s scrawled on the front and back. It looks like a book. “It says the shadows of dawn have been discovered!”

I’ve finally drawn something I’ve wanted to make for a long time— a better map of Kabos!

Smoke from the California wildfires kept a very disappointed girl penned up inside. I didn’t want the whole day to be just television, so I broke out a pair of plaster bird statues and we went to work…

I showed her the list of our ideas this morning at breakfast. Some she remembered, and some she had forgotten. What should we do now?, I asked.

"You make stories and games for us," she said matter-of-factly.

Summer is drawing to a close, so today we set out for one last hike in a local park and she insisted on bringing her monstervore costume so we could take some pictures "out in the wilderness."

“So have you and the monstervores ever seen a golem? What word was on its head?”

“We did, but it wasn’t a word,” she said. “It had a map drawn on it.”