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Something I can't quite figure out
Dec. 20th, 2008 02:39 amIt has been a while since I wrote anything of substance. While the burns on my body have healed apace, my hands are still quite sore. The burns are still weeping and require redessing frequently, and writing is still painful. I have been making notes, to rewrite later but I have not found the energy. The laudanum affected more than the pain, so I have stopped taking it on a regular basis.
My greater concern has been for Miss Janus, in whose house I have been living for the past few weeks. She has been very listless and tired since the end of the Moriarity incident, and while our schedules are normally very different, we did maintain a very cordial and vivacious relationship. This seems to be no longer the case of late.
There is a palpable pall hanging over the house, and while I am concerned for her, I wonder if it is my place to ask her what has happened. She has been spending a great deal of time with Orchid and Rip, and I cannot help but wonder if the changes in her behavior have anything to do with the Amulet. I often wonder how things would be different now had I been the one to bear that burden.
The other matter that seems odd to me has been the return to New Babbage of Professor Nishi. I met her briefly during the matter of Miss Igaly, and she was as aloof and distant to me as her reputation had related. The bothersome part for me was her appearance was not at all what I had expected. She was young and slight, not at all the academic personage that I had constructed a mental image of. She played an integral part of the capture of Moriarity, and the end of the Cuckoos, but there were..rumors. Loose talk amongst the back alleys and pubs of the city. I am always reminded that I am still a stranger in New Babbage, and she has not opened her secret places to me.
I must get some rest, and I have things to be attended to. I can only hope that there is some light at the end of this tunnel I have found myself in.
My greater concern has been for Miss Janus, in whose house I have been living for the past few weeks. She has been very listless and tired since the end of the Moriarity incident, and while our schedules are normally very different, we did maintain a very cordial and vivacious relationship. This seems to be no longer the case of late.
There is a palpable pall hanging over the house, and while I am concerned for her, I wonder if it is my place to ask her what has happened. She has been spending a great deal of time with Orchid and Rip, and I cannot help but wonder if the changes in her behavior have anything to do with the Amulet. I often wonder how things would be different now had I been the one to bear that burden.
The other matter that seems odd to me has been the return to New Babbage of Professor Nishi. I met her briefly during the matter of Miss Igaly, and she was as aloof and distant to me as her reputation had related. The bothersome part for me was her appearance was not at all what I had expected. She was young and slight, not at all the academic personage that I had constructed a mental image of. She played an integral part of the capture of Moriarity, and the end of the Cuckoos, but there were..rumors. Loose talk amongst the back alleys and pubs of the city. I am always reminded that I am still a stranger in New Babbage, and she has not opened her secret places to me.
I must get some rest, and I have things to be attended to. I can only hope that there is some light at the end of this tunnel I have found myself in.
