24 - I found another key.
joneworlds@mailbox.org
Some time back I found another key with the blue
stone in it, while I was digging one of my
holes. I went over to Del's mom's house to put it
with the others in a box I keep in the old Dodge
out back there. She has the electricity today, so
I was going over there anyways to pick up some
bread, and also to drop off some ibuprofen with
her. Which was a funny coincidence, because I got
all these boxes of ibuprofen bottles from some
elfs when they traded them to me for just one of
these same keys, back in the summer when they saw
I had one. They were super serious about it, and
offered all these boxes of ibuprofen, which was
surprising to me because it was just some old
piece of junk I found in the dirt. I guess I'll
take it if they're offering. But I find these
blue-stone keys all the time, somehow. By now I
feel a bit weird about having a small box full of
them, when I don't know why they are such a big
deal. That's why I hide them, for now. I'm not
trying to be a jerk and keep them away from
whoever wants them so badly for some reason, and
I'm not even trying to hold out for a trade. I'm
just nervous about having something like that when
the centaurs have their eyes on everything like
they do. Don't want to draw attention to
myself. The Olds talk to each other, at least some
of them do. So I guess I'm not sure how best to
get out of this now.