NJ72

July 11, 2005 (Monday morning early - 2:05am)

Um my last post. That...experience, I think it triggered something in Johnathon.

Remember the "phasing" I described some while back? Well, he phased this weekend. Saturday and Sunday
nights, respectively.

I...I don't know where to start. It's like the...oh hell, it's an entire book of a story and I just don't have the time
to write it all down.

Friday night, Johnathon told us he might Phase on Saturday night! He was getting cravings for things. His
creativity started to focus on only one thing but on that one thing... WHAM. He does amazing things. His focus
becomes pretty singular. Also, things start to taste funny. Off. Especially his coffee. It almost always starts to
taste like kerosene. And no, I don't know how he came to know the taste of kerosene.

He's not phased since the accident. We've dreamwalked, but he's not phased.

Fleur was excited. She'd read my journal and she'd already met Labyrinth, if briefly. Now she'd get the chance
to see what a Phase was like in real life. I warned her to not expect too much. That if she did, she might get
disappointed. Sometimes the resolution of whoever "came through" was very low.

Oh, hell. I'm sitting here, trying to think how to write this down and it make any sense. It's all kind of
convoluted.

Saturday night. We met Elderberry. A grasshopper. From the Southlands. Of Cyeatea. He was working in
some sort of Archives. He'd never seen honeybees. They were/are a myth. God is also a myth but they all
believe he's there and moves unseen.

Humans were also a myth.

The area was amazingly high tech. And so far from the Hives as to be a HUGE distance.

In the archives they could not read anything or make anything work. They didn't know where to start and then
Johnathon arrived in Elderberry's place. For a little while. Just long enough. He explained to the cockroach
assistant who he was. She was going to restrain him as having gone mad until he proved himself in translating
several of the devices that they'd been wracking their brains to figure out. But they'd wasted so much time
with him trying to explain himself. He was constantly afraid he'd disappear--awaken, in other words.

Once they believe him, they pointed out what they were wondering about the most.

And they went from there.

Translating.

He barely had enough time to show them how to use the transportation device in the archives building. He
basically awakened a huge computer system. Put it on line, and told it to translate and speak and respond to
the voices and requests of Elderberry and his assistant. I've forgotten her name already. Idiot that I am. So
much. So much! It was...amazing once we realized who/what he was.

He's from an area of Cyeatea that has never seen the hive. It's like being at one end of California and the
hives and Sentinel trees being at the other. You can't see it from the opposite ends. You have to do a LOT of
traveling to get to the other end.

And apparently in the middle is a rain forest sort of place Almost impossible to get through. And if you do, you
generally don't want to make a trip back through it. You see, the raindrops are almost ten feet in diameter.

This tells Johnathon and I something.

The size difference.

The Cyeateans may be of a size equivalent to earthly insects! It's perspective. When we Dreamwalk, we may
be the size of, well, insects! Tiny tiny tiny!

Sunday-Lilith Fosse. A human. Primary engineer and primary geneticist on an amazing spaceship. An arc. The
ship was having problem and might not survive a landing. Johnathon was there, in her body. Helping. Asking
questions. Guiding. Trying to make it so they could at the very least make a smooth "rough" landing.

While we knew that Johnathon could help, we distracted Lilith to keep her here as long as we could. Talking to
her. Listening to her. What's happening on the ship. The engineers. The poor quality.

She and her ship - which is tremendous in size, by the way - were in a part of space that was basically empty of
life.

In other words, they'd made a wrong turn and had run out of gas. There was a tiny moon of a planet thingie
that they could land on and that's where they headed. It was their last chance. The ship was large enough for
the people there to live out their lives, though not enough of them to continue the human race. They didn't
send that many.

Those back on...earth, had hoped the arc would find a world, send back transmissions of their success, start
terraforming and in a generation or two...or three, THEN they could send more people out. When the road had
been paved before them...

Lilith was very unhappy about this. And so many other reasons as well.

We're all trying to figure out why she came through Phase. What was our part in this 'walk? We know it was
very likely to help the Cyeateans in some way.

Yes, apparently the Cyeateans and this ship are connected.

You see, inscribed on many of the metal plates - or not metal - that Johanthon passed as he powered up the
main "Archive" rooms for Elderberry, the Grasshopper from the night before, was a signature. I guess the
signature of the person in charge of constructing that area or something like that.

The name?

Lilith.

Lilith Fosse.

I want to get to the hive, now. From there, I want to make an expedition. To go to the Southlands.

Somehow.

I want to see for myself.

I think I need to see.