Husband has shown me how to use google and wikipedia. He said this will help me understand this world. I think if there is something I need to know he will tell me, so for now I am working to understand him.

  Word notes:

  Convention: an organized meeting of enthusiasts for a television program, movie, or literary genre.

  Fangirl: a female fan, especially one who is obsessive about comics, movies, music, or science fiction.

  Cosmetic surgery: unique discipline of medicine focused on enhancing appearance through surgical and medical techniques.

  Creepy: causing an unpleasant feeling of fear or unease.

  Eighty emm card: ?

  When Husband and I appeared in the woods and he recognized where we were, he told me some things right away. He said he did not think miqo'te existed in this world, nor any other people besides hyur. He also said hyur tend to be confused and upset when they saw things they did not understand, and that we did not want to be around confused and upset hyur.

  So he wanted me to pretend to be a hyur. He said that we should say I am a "fangirl" that likes Final Fantasy Fourteen so much that I had "cosmetic surgery" to make me look like a miqo'te, with miqo'te ears and a tail, which made me very popular at "conventions" but I grew weary of the "creepy" people at them who would want to touch or pull my ears and tail. So, as his story says, now we do not go to conventions and I cover my ears and tail when I can.

  I have a manor beret that covers my ears, but all my clothing adapts for my tail. Husband still had his Earth things, including some Earth money, so when we saw the town we went to buy a coat for me. Stealth worked to get to the store. We bought a used coat to save money. Husband said he did not want to risk trying to use his "eighty emm card" until he needed to.

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  Husband says this world does not use gil. He says there are almost two hundred countries in this world and that each one has its own type of money. The country we are in is "The United States" and the money used here is "dollars". I think this is a problem. We each have several million gil, but I do not think Husband has many dollars.

  Yet he still used some of it to buy us food at an inn he called a "diner". We have at least two moons' worth of food in our inventory, but he is not sure about hunting and harvesting here. He also wants me to see Earth hyur and get used to being around them. Though much of the time he tells me to "follow his lead".

  He was able to borrow a wire from one of the serving women and used it to connect a "phone" to a wall for it to "charge". We ate sandwiches of sliced meat and vegetables and fluffy bread while I asked him what things were. Many "cars" were on the roads. We do not have mounts that look like them. Husband needs to say which of our mounts the hyur would consider "normal".

  The food felt different from food in Eorzea, heavier and not as empowering. The other hyur in the diner seemed to be doing things while they ate, like talking with other hyur or reading things or using things that looked like Husband's phone. They all seemed to be taking their time with eating, like it was something to do, rather than needing it to live as Husband said. Perhaps this is because eating takes longer here than in Eorzea, so they do other things to pass the time.

  But all of them seemed more alert and alive than the Eorzeans Husband calls NPCs. They would come and go. They would not repeat things. They would sometimes talk to us rather than waiting for us to talk to them. I think in Eorzea Husband would call them "players". Here he calls them people.

  But there are no lalafel, no elezan, no au ra, no viera, and no miqo'te. Nor goblins, kobolds, vath, qiquin or ixali. Certainly no sylph. Only hyur. I am alone with Husband in a world full of people.

  When the phone was charged, Husband used it like a linkpearl to talk to someone else. That is when he found out that he is not who he thought he was, and that who he thought he was is older and thousands of malms away. He does not have the home or the family or the history he thought he did. So he is alone with me in a world full of people.

  We are alone together here.