The papers on his desk were either ripped to shreds or covered so thoroughly in spilled ink that their former glory was hardly recognizable. It was evidence of a child's tantrum more than anything else. After beginning this strange letter writing habit, the young boy knew that some of these letters would be more difficult to write than others, but he had rationalized that it would be easy as long as he hid some of the more embarrassing letters away. Still, why did that girl's letter trouble him so much? It should have been the easiest of all of them. Just throw a few casual insults in her direction and be done with it. She wasn't the hardest girl to bother being that she had such an explosive anger. Her outbursts made Zeno nervous, but at the same time they made him laugh. After what he'd done to her, there was no way that he could avoid writing her something . . . an apology.

Dear Tia,

You never change, do you? All you ever do is rampage across the school and terrorize my little brother. Don't play dumb and pretend like I've never heard of your nick name, Ms. Strangler. With a monstrous face like yours, it makes sense that you'd end up playing the role of local troll and not the princess. Fine with me. You'd make an awful damsel in distress anyway. Even back when I fought with my brother in the human world, you were the least pathetic of his friends. I'm not about to go far enough to say that you're as strong as Zatch or me, but you turned away my ultimate spell. Zatch has told me that you've gotten stronger since then, and I believe him . . . but I'm beating around the bush here. Someone like me, I shouldn't be wasting time, especially when I know you're not going to read this deranged diary entry. I don't even know why I'm doing this anymore.

I guess- Bah, look, I'm writing this stupid thing to apologize for calling you all of those names during that fight and hurting everyone so badly. But hey, now that I think about it, you should be thanking me. You never would have gotten that dumb shield of yours working so well if I hadn't pissed you off. My fight made you so much stronger and expecting anything less during a battle for crown would have been idiotic on your point.

No wait . . . that doesn't sound right either. Why is this stupid apology business so hard?

Not so sincerely,

Zeno