Journal--The Sun Seeker

The journals of Lezarouth Rice, 118 to 139.

The Sun Seeker
118/8/26

There. That’s the date in the commonly recognized church calendar. I had to buy one of those clunky pocket watches to track it, because there’s no way I’ll remember at what time of what day the date changes. But I thought for this journal I needed a date that could be recognized around the Known Worlds, so I bought the f@&#! watch. I think I’ll keep it with the journal. In the Vengish calendar it is 1104, Gather 14, which means it is hot and raining and wearying. I’m sick of Saint Vengeance, but Ren-Jen says we need to include it in our encyclopedia, and we may as well get it done before we leave. Fortunately, she’s a little nervous what may happen to me here, so she’s working quickly. I’m lying low and writing as fast as she puts out the reports.

118/8/32

Scared Ren-Jen again today. Went to the “entity” that arranged for us to “acquire” the Sun Seeker. “They” had said she’d arrived in orbit, and had given me access codes by the usual method. I wanted to visit her, get familiar with her before we left, and hoped they could arrange the meeting. Well, their “place of business” is charred timbers now. As I was leaving, a man under an umbrella seemed to follow me for several blocks. I lost him before I made it home, but when I told Ren-Jen she was apoplectic.

“I can’t believe you were so stupid! What if he was with P&P! They could pick you up just for looking at [those people].”

“He wasn’t with P&P,” I pointed out. “P&P wouldn’t have followed me, they’d have jumped me, and we wouldn’t be having this conversation.”

“It isn’t just you, you know,” she said. “It’s me, too. You get yourself back behind bars and we’ll never get started on this.”

You’d think after all this time Ren-Jen would have expected me to be “so stupid,” but she doesn’t. So which of us is slow on the uptake?

Lezarouth Rice