I tried to stay low entering Arklay. I tried to be smart like taught me, avoid contact, watch the defenses of a place, the routines, watch for strange things that are give always something really wrong. I did for a while, hang back observing, but food ran low, water from the woods was iffy even straining like you told me to Darius. I miss you. I realize that soon I won’t be able to remember your voice exactly, like the others you will fade. I don’t want you to fade, not yet, so I am going to keep writing to you. You’d like Rose, she was kind of human, you know, just a girl that works at the bar on this island. Nice, human, let me get some clean water off her for not all the money. I owe her. Man money, gonna have to find some work, do what you said cooperate, but damn, that’s what got you killed, being nice. Maybe there are more people like Rose, maybe. I miss you Darius.
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