The Beaded Tapestry

Delphi, New London

Dear Analis,

I find my desire to immerse myself in the serenity of my art overwhelming at this time.  I have spent the last few days in the disagreeable task of arranging our business affairs with the many agencies located here in Delphi. Thru history there has always been a bureaucratic entity present in all major population centers and New London is no exception. I realize that what I have been doing here over the last few weeks is paramount to the success of our project but I find I am losing patience quickly with the amount of paperwork needed to establish myself and our dream here.  I have finally reached the end of this clerical nightmare and the final documents were signed today at the land registration office.  We are now the proud custodians of forty acres of desert mountain property and the permits to build.  I will have to thank the contractor as he completed quite a bit of the preliminary work before I arrived.  It was still a large undertaking and I am glad to be heading to the build site first thing tomorrow.  I have missed father’s keen clerical sense more than ever over the past few days and I yearned more than once to be able to channel his abilities across time and space.  

The scientific community has won out over the artisan in the designation of the Anomaly.  The official name has been announced by the committee as Glauert’s Eques Mass Spectrum Array.   There are still hints of compromise with the artisan community in their choice as Glauert was the historic anthropologist from Australia who was responsible for categorizing many of the sea denizens there back in the 19th century.  There is a certain romanticism in the choice of names and I have heard the Equine being used as a popular alternative to the scientific designation.  I am ecstatic that some reference to the small sea creature it resembles remains and as I tire of calling it the Anomaly I will also adopt this more than appropriate epithet.

My trip up the coast was a magnificent experience and I have filled my artistic mind with the unobscured vision the countryside had to offer of the Equine. Nicolas was equally enchanted and he seemed to gain added momentum for his endeavors if that could at all be possible. He has now been gone over two weeks to his new home and I find myself missing him already. I know this is mainly caused by my work being on hold until I am established and I hope once I am immersed in my studies that the infrequent visit with him will be adequate to sustain our rapport.  A relationship at this point is not ideal for either of us but I would not rule it out in the future.

From what I have observed the turmoil in Delphi has slackened while I have been here.  Although there is a feeling of tension on the streets that is almost palpable between certain groups, there has been no signs of actual violence.  The Cultavist leader was able to curb most of the activities caused by his lost flock members, but there is still conflict between the security forces and the various activist group present in Delphi.  Near the admin complex a small demonstration was evident when I was there to meet the planet registrar. The small group of people were a mix of Cultavist and eco-scholars protesting the use of the Equine for profit. The flash boards carried by the Eco-scholars displayed pictures of construction sites all over New London and the supposed destruction of the natural resources in the name of progress.  The boards carried by the Cultavist displayed logos representing  the many artificial research facilities located near the Equine including the pictogram for the Phycodurus-8. The message was the same under all the photos.  Stop the abuse!! It is strange how these types of images never change over the centuries. Even for a planet that has been focused on the natural preservation from the beginning of its colonization,  it is still not enough to satisfy all the people. At least this demonstration was peaceful and I only heard a few demonstrators  screaming obscenities at the outside of the building. I was not able to determine who this was directed  against  but there was definitely hostile words toward the security force blocking the building entrance.  I will be happy when I am well away from the center of civilization and busy with the ecological destruction of my own special piece of New London.    

I have found time in the last few days to contact the Flynn foundation headquarters here.  I had a stroke of luck in that respect as one of their top researchers is in Delphi for business. He has agreed to share certain  information with us on an informal basis as long as we agree to use this knowledge in confidence. This will relieve any threat of breaking our security agreements with our respective employers and maybe we can assist each other in our goals.  I realize this is a bit of a gentlemen’s agreement, but as we both have the same risks of disclosure I am trusting our arrangement. Dr. Falton was very interested in our observations about the growth of the Equine and also about your theory of its intelligents.  As these two items have not been included in our research for the Louvre as yet I felt comfortable giving up this knowledge as a sign of trust. He shared an overview with me about the construction parameters they used for their complex and also what type of conditions they are focused on treating.   A very noble cause if I am any judge and it seems logical that the Equine would be interested in giving them preferential treatment. I have agreed to stay in contact with him on our combined progress as long as neither of us breaks our confidential agreements.  I hope you are agreeable to this as it is impossible to ask your opinion at this time.  

I have begun to count the days till you arrive and we can discuss these types of things before I act.  I am not confident in making all these types of decisions on my own but as we discussed the impact of the Equine on the Flynn foundation before we left Earth I have set the ball in motion.

I remain your trusted partner.

Love Victoria