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Problems have a way of resolving themselves. It's like my old instructors said: The Obstruction Is The construction.
I always did think that was a remarkably easy bit of wisdom for the people not being constantly tested and teased, but it is sometimes true. With this amount of citrus in the hold we needn't fear any dangers of diet. The sails are patchy and worn-through but the <span class="mu-i">spiders</span> can be harnessed to resolve that, slow and sure. All of Doc's ministrations and administrations leave us with a moist man who can tell us the twist and turn of tide. Somehow, Bloom brought one enough sigilplate that if we need it, we can improvise an anchor.
I wonder about Kierkegaard, that one lose end. I had high hopes for the Luckthief. crucial for the parts that are to come. There's a chance the Luperni will turn him, in time, to tell a tale.
Even the ocean seems almost glad to help us on our way. One wonders . . . Why.
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>Escape Success!
>Lonely Light complete!
>Minor processing still to be done, some actions unresolved - to be resolved loosely over the next bit.
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We'll be a month in arriving to our far destination, and then it's up to Log and Note to offer up their part. They've been scouting out the Luperni Library. Gotten inside. With any due luck, they'll know where to go and what we need to find.
Still. I can't help but shake the feeling that I'm . . . missing something. A loose end that gnaws at the little paranoid part of my soul. And it's just because I assume whenever I open the door from my office to the ship proper I'll find the crew bloodied, beaten and battered. Not just, anyhow...
Something in the phrasing of the Knight Laelaps. I stole the Atlas Improbable. That's theft, yes, I understand - transgressions against Luperni, sure and certain, and so because we cross a noble house of Pyther it's a crime against that vast polity. But...
Why did the First Pursuer name us for Ambition and Ascension? Mere possessing of the atlas under lock and guard here with us shouldn't constitute a crime against the Sun itself. Those are charges beyond just whisperwork and theft. This is heresy in the making, if you believe that kind of thing.
Gerean wasn't clear on the specifics and I don't see it yet. Theft, I acknowledge, and damage, and insurance fraud... I understand Ambition, I think I understand how one might violate the strictures against Ascension.
What is ... a crime against the High Sun itself? How would a <span class="mu-i">book</span> be all one needs for it? It tickles the mind.
Perhaps at the Luperni Library, we can find the how and why. What we need there is straight forward: astrological logs. But what we could find is more. A research centre has information on a thousand-thousand things.
Hmhm. I'll ask Pen and Quill. Maybe while we do one thing, they make a visit to the Legal Section.
>travel phase!
>Enjoy the ship, talk shop, bum around, ask questions. Your days are filled with the menial marine work of keeping a vessel sea-sound
