It appears as if the feeds are working again. I noticed that this place became bloody quiet while they were broken and hopefully this will have a positive effect.

With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.

                                                                                 – Chinese Proverb

There is a pleasant cool breeze tonight. I have no idea where it is coming from. The Cavern has never had much of a cross-breeze.

Wherever it is coming from, it is having a positive effect. I’m listening to Gregg Karukas, drinking Lady Grey and have made some decent  progress on Luminesce. Now that access to the Pod Ages have been restored, perhaps I will go and have a look about them. I always did enjoy the relaxing sounds of ice floes on the hull of the pod.

Maybe I will go over to the dock in the City, there may be some people there, but hearing the conversations of others sounds oddly pleasant to me tonight.

I’d like more nights like this

- Giles

I haven’t had the desire to write in this Journal as of late. The Cavern has changed so drastically. My KI works again, assigned a number unrequested.

The marching feet on their journey down here, it practically shakes the walls of the Cavern, in my imagination. The dust slowly falls from the roof of this place.

Bah, how drearily I write nowadays! I must shake off the dust that has settled upon me. The Cavern is full of life, the thing I most wanted it to be infused with, but it was not of my own doing. Does that somehow cheapen it? Of course, it should not, so why do I feel this way? I sometimes think it quite juvenile and spoiled of me, but other times I completely agree with myself.

The City Proper is alive with life and the bustle of people again. Never more than several dozen at a time mind you, but enough to bring noise back to this place.

I’ve taken to walking the docks at times when the population seems lowest. I’ve rarely encountered anyone personally. I have to conciously force myself to not react to them. Of course I am not bothered as no one recognises me, and why should they? Yet, somewhere deep inside part of me wishes they did know me. Wishes they did know that they walk so casually mere metres from my home for so long.

Some of my belongings still remain in my old quarters. Eventually I will retrieve them.

I’ve been attempting to rid Luminesce of the things I think could make it unsafe for a first visit. The D’ni sign for the negative is quite strange, as it isn’t quite a word, more a symbol. Now that I’ve begun using it I realise how often I’ve come across it in my explorations.

I’ve simply been using it to negate the larger threats that could endanger me on a quick visit to see my progress. Of course I could fill a library of books with “no something”s but I will stick with only the ones I can think of.  “No Large Animals” seemed a good start, although I still have trouble forming some of the more ornate characters.

Or would that destroy the ecology of the planet? Should I dare lay such sweeping waste to parts of a natural system? I wish soon to visit and report on my very first Age, as I know many others would enjoy a first glimpse, I just cannot be too cautious…