Fantasy

The thing with me, is that I get very absorbed into the stories I'm reading, and draw exaggerated parallels with reality.

I read Inheritance today, and tomorrow's my H3 paper.

It feels like I'm going to war, just like Eragon did. And I'm going in with the one thing that I'm good at, like how Eragon fights with Saphira.

It's been a year-long journey with chem, full of inconsequential papers of H2, school exams, and tests. Like Eragon, he had many many battles fought with increasing difficulty, from the Burning Plains, to Dras-Leona to Belatona. And tired and weary, he reaches Uru'baen! I'm exhilarated and scared, as he was!

When I realised I could take H3, I was elated and wary, probably how Eragon felt with Saphira hatched for him. I never thought I would make it! These are genuine words. Like how Eragon never thought he'd become a Rider one day, young farmboy of Palancar Valley.

Sure as Eragon got so badly blistered from initial flights on Saphira without his saddle, H3 has been tough enough. Having to balance J2 rigour with syf practices, 3rd period pe (rolls eyes here) and deciphering spectrograms after all that activity gave me such throbbing headaches. It was satisfying to a certain point admittedly, knowing that my brain was being worked.

Though Saphira he's become so much stronger and wiser and more capable. It's exactly what going through the H3 syllabus has gave me. I read voraciously on reagents and mechanisms on wikipedia now- something I never thought would one day become of me haha.

And it's tomorrow, the final paper!!! Feeling as nervous as Eragon right now, but at this juncture there's no more turning back! Eragon was victorious though a sheer stroke of luck. My skills are probably nowhere up for an A, as much as how Eragon could not have hoped to defeat Galbatorix alone. I can barely do NMR spectroscopy elucidations oh the shame. But it's okay, Eragon has Saphira and I have all the chem knowledge I amassed over the past year. Inadequate, but to the best of my abilities.

May luck be with me tomorrow! As it had been with Eragon! The fantasy shall continue tomorrow, with the outcome of my paper hahaha. Either I move on to embrace a life of chem as Eragon has with dragons, or if I fail, I fall like Queen Islanzadi in full honour, but of a waste that such a magical journey had a premature end.