Personal Log 25 January 3307‘Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime.’ I often wonder what the sound of a heart breaking might be. I remember mine breaking, but I do not recall the sound it made. I think, therefore, it must be quiet - imperceptibly...
Personal Log 07 January 3307“Sometimes, the only way to get justice is to take it for yourself.” Following my return to Cemiess, my grandparents joined the families of other victims in seeking answers. Their efforts were instantly thwarted by bureaucratic red tape and soon thereafter...
Personal Log 01 January 3307“There’s a queer streak in human natures. Men come back to places for secret reasons, for feelings they cannot resist.” After landing at Dav’s Hope that first time it took me a while before I could leave my ship. For what seemed like forever I just...
Letter to a Friend“If we don't tell strange stories, when something strange happens we won't believe it.” To: (Marcus Amicus) mamicus@cubeo.chelomey.sta From: (Quriosyty) qur105syty@cemiess.sub-space.sys 28 December 3006 Dear Marcus, It’s been a while...
Personal Log - 22 December 3306“Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.” Sometimes beautiful things come into our lives out of nowhere. We can't always understand them, but we have to trust in them. I know it’s easy to want to question everything, but sometimes it pays...
Personal Log - 19 December 3306“The stars are not wanted now; put out every one, pack up the moon and dismantle the sun.” Sometimes when I sleep, that is when I sleep, I dream about my mother. It’s always the same. We are on Cemiess near the palace gardens and it’s summer. The sky...
Personal Log - 15 December 3306“But there’s no such thing as free. There are only different and more horrible ways to be enslaved.” As I looked back at the rim of Cemiess, a field of stars framing the shining planet against the obsidian backdrop of the void, I felt only one regret,...
Personal Log - 13 December 3306""I'll believe it if I see it," for dogs translates to "I'll believe it if I smell it." It's the same for mega-corpoations, who also see the world differently, where humanity and compassion have been equated with profit and power....
Personal Log - 05 December 3306"I cannot believe that the path to retribution lies in staining our souls so black we become indistinguishable from those we seek to punish." If Lucy Minneux had lit a fire within me, then it was I who fuelled it. And it eventually became...
Personal Log - 27 November 3306“When you begin a journey of revenge, start by digging two graves: one for your enemy, and one for yourself.” Everything will be fine, he'd told me. I didn't believe him, I doubt I ever will. But at the time, the tiny part of my mind which wasn't screaming...
