1st Card {Text}

[keystaff]

Sender: Kinomoto Sakura
To: All
Subject: Birthdays?

I hope this works. The journals we would have back home weren't like this. Showing everyone. Not unless we wrote online and it was public. I did only recently get here though. I'm Kinomoto Sakura! Sakura being my first given name, Kinomoto being my family one. I'm from Tomoeda in Japan. I'm thirteen fourteen now? I think. I'm not sure if this really counts as my birthday or not. I've never had one apart from my family and friends before. If this does count. That's a little strange to think about.

Back home, I'd have weird dreams but not quite like this exactly. And there was magic but not quite the same as this what I've seen so far at least. I'm still figuring all this out. This dream magic? Or whatever it's called. I do at least have one familiar face though! Kero-chan is with me. I mean. My stuffed toy came with me. Otherwise, I guess. I'm not sure if I should ask on how it works exactly? Dreaming? I mean. If others might be able to see my dreams here or?

[Because. Well. There's some things she is still trying to keep secret. And given her dreams are often prophetic and rather odd or dangerous sometimes. That might be important to know.]

Comments

[keystaff]

English always seems to have some. What's the word? Exceptions to the rules? It's hard! I'm still learning it!

He isn't a cute animal, no! He's just my older brother. He's in university and all now. He has a lot of part time jobs to help pay for it.

[lonelysmiles]

It seems your language has quite a few exceptions to its own rules, my dear. I don't understand why you used "chan" in this instance.

[keystaff]

Ah, that's just I guess my default for him since I'm younger. I grew up calling him that.

Trust me, he isn't cute or anything at all. He's always eating my food and snacks and calling me a kaiju. Ah, that's a monster, basically, a kaiju.

[lonelysmiles]

Ah. I see.

Sibling dynamics are a bit of a mystery to me at times!

[keystaff]

Maybe other siblings don't tease their younger sisters or eat their snacks but my onii-chan does at least. Tomoyo-chan doesn't have any siblings and I haven't met Syaoran-kun's sisters to be able to compare.