From the Diary of Rudolpho Milano

Dear Diary,

Looks like I'm stuck with these idiots for a while longer.

Apparently we (meaning Vin) agreed to perform some more missions for Lavinia. You ask me, the Jade Losers could probably stand to do some honest work. I spent this afternoon sleeping through some boring city council meeting. We captured some pirates in the last battle but most of them don’t know squat and the only one that knows, isn’t telling squat. Daria left to have a talk with their leader, Slipknot Pete. Good luck, Pete.

After the town hall meeting, I just happened to comment offhand that I cannot wait to kill Vanthus and it's like I slapped everyone in the face (not that I haven't thought of doing that). Vin seemed really offended. He countered that if anyone was going to kill Vanthus that it was his duty because, as wielder of his stupid sword and shield, he was now representing the Vanderboring family and this was a family matter.

Nesta argued that she got to kill Vanthus because that is exactly the reason that she has been training as a man hunter all these weeks. Nesta says that if she gets a clear shot, she's taking out Vanthus regardless of who calls dibs on his worthless butt.

Daria insisted that killing is a dirty job and that she would take care of it to save anyone else from the moral baggage that comes with such an act. Ain't she sweet?

Gwendolyn had no idea of whom we were speaking and didn't seem really interested in killing Vanthus. Well, I've never heard of anyone being serenaded to death anyway - but if anyone could do it, it would be Gwen. No contest. Ortho and Mystic Z are lightweights. I don't guess they'll be any competition in the race to kill Vanthus. Other than myself, Kongu is the one who could definitely do the job but he seemed uninterested. He's still busy practicing with that dull sword.

Anyway I've got an itchin' that won't be scratched until I get around to killing Vanthus Vabderboren. Oh yeah, I gotta kill Maria too. I almost forgot about her. Let's see. Then there's Harlus and Bryss. I can't forget about all of those Drow under the Isle of Dread. I gotta get back to killing them. Then there are all of those stupid primitives back in Loserville – the ones that killed Avner. I'm gonna kill every last one of them. And whatever that two-headed monkey-faced loser is – he’s got it coming. Lastly, I have to remember to kill those pirates that threw me overboard years ago.

Diary, I gotta lotta work ahead of me. I gotta quit writing and get to killing.

-R