Brave New World

When Mephistopheles said "Why this is hell", perhaps he meant having his unfortunate distractions tabulated into graphs by a vexatious colleague.

There is nothing for it. I will have to stop writing during the time I spend at the lab and focus instead on studying the specimens we have.

But at the same time I can't deny that Sanada's presence has - thanks to this specific form of madness that afflicts me thus - inadvertently assisted in some of my most inspired prose, and removing myself from it entirely would only be detrimental to my writing.

I cannot call upon Yanagi to make Inui disappear, alas.

Presently, two solutions present themselves: first, to send myself to the Crawler's nest as part of my research and thereby spend time alone with my own deep sense of mortification. Second, I should perhaps, as they say in crasser tongues, get laid.

Addendum: Perhaps Yanagi can make Kenya disappear.

How is my favourite Yomi resident doing today?

While unsure of how the journey itself will go, I'm somewhat looking forward to the expedition to the planet's ocean. Once a viable route is found, perhaps we can dive below the surface on further trips.

Speaking of below the surface, the lab is running tragically low on fresh sandworm samples. If either team comes across a recently deceased member of the species, we'd be grateful if you managed to collect a sizeable amount.