Dearest sister,

I am once again aboard the Geo-train heading toward the city of Delphi. The last three weeks since my mountain excursion have been extremely productive and I felt enough has been accomplished to allow this necessary trip. When I received the message on my wrist pad last week that the metrology equipment was at last repaired, I made the required arrangements to travel to Delphi to handle it personally. My trust in the safe transport of these delicate pieces was greatly tried on its journey from Earth and I feel more secure handling the transfer myself. This way I am also able to inspect the equipment before they leave the repair facility and ensure all units are operational before they are loaded on the ground transport I hired. I will also need to arrange payment seeing as the estimate I received from the administrator was much higher than he originally quoted. All the more reason to check all is in order before removing the equipment from the facility.

I have had little time to write to you since my trip into the mountains. My work and the material testing have consumed every minute of my days and most of the time well into the night. I again postponed Katyna’s arrival as I wanted to ensure the project timeline was again on track before beginning her training. We have agreed to her move to the studio a week after my return from Delphi and I am using some of my free time on this journey to map out her apprenticeship.

The sustainability test on the samples of sage and pytherium have produced the predicted results and I have sent this data to your research lab by secure strip beam. The sage is an ideal wavelength carrier as we had hoped and appears to retain its properties well beyond the two hundred year mark we targeted for. The lifetime of the wavelength cycle for the turquoise has also tested well within tolerance during the second batch of tests and I have four more substances under observation at this moment. I will need to replenish my supply of the pytherium from the herbal shop on this trip as I have had no luck discovering a local source for this elusive material. My small supply purchased months ago has been totally consumed by the most recent Equine rendition and the additional analyses needed after my failed attempt during my illness. The material has amazing properties and is proving to be particularly promising on the neurological spectrum, promoting calming wavelength emissions as well as providing a vibrant green tint for my paintings. I only hope the herb shop I visited before has more available then the last time. I attempted to contact the proprietress before my trip but with no success. Not everyone is technically connected here, Some by choice but others because of the lack of available technology that plagues some of the areas of New London. There are many things I have taken for granted from my life on Earth that are not near common here and it becomes more apparent the longer I remain away from my former life. 

I have transformed the charcoal drawing I created on the last night of my camping trip into a full color version. The results show the increasing complexity of the Equine and the new forms it is revealing to my increasing perspective. I will use this piece for the spectral measurement carried out by the modified optical enhancement unit. From what I gather from your instructions all sections of the painting needs to be connected to sensors giving a full reading of the emissions of the material acting in unison. This should be the last piece of data you will need to begin your work upon arrival at the station. Although not all colors are yet natively sourced, it will give you an excellent model to compare to the real Equine emissions that are currently being collected by your enhancement unit on the Phycodurus-8. The few messages I have received from the planning officer aboard the space lab have inferred that all seems to be going as planned with your instructions. There have been no reports of trouble aboard the station since my departure but I am baffled there have been no further solar flares from Alpha Centauri. It will be interesting to see what readings from our own metrology equipment are produced pertaining to the solar flares once I have them at the studio and operational. I still have not received permission from the officials to have the historical data released even though I have contacted them several times about the inquiry. One of my planned missions while I am in the city is a personal appearance at their office to resolve this issue. Maybe that will activate their memory about my request. I have not involved the Louvre representative in this struggle, but it may come to that in the end.

I also will be meeting with the Flynn Foundation in Delphi. Unfortunately I will not be meeting with Dr. Falton this trip as he is currently off planet. This is a great disappointment since we had arranged to meet during this time frame and I have much to share with him about the movement of the Equine structure. The Doctor has been oddly quiet these past months and I have only received short responses to my messages. He mostly gives his reassurance that our agreement is still in place but there is no other usable information in his replies. On the slight chance he might become available during this visit I have included a copy of my latest view of the Anomaly in my travel sachet. I felt reluctant to include this information with the last message I have sent him due to security concerns and hope sharing a copy in person will be possible.

I will only be in the city for five days but I have arranged a small treat for myself during my visit. There is a small music conservatory located just a few streets from where I will be staying. Every month the conservatory gives a performance of music inspired by the Equine and the Louvre representative has arranged for me to attend. It is one of the arts I greatly admire but truly do not comprehend, You know I cannot carry a tune to save my life and all attempts by our parents to coax any type of musical aspirations from me or you failed catastrophically. In my mind I realize it is all just mathematical arrangements but I once heard mother refer to us as the musical equivalent of Cinderella’s step sisters. I believe that was around the time both our parents ceased their endeavors to bring out the music in us. It now only makes me appreciate this form of art more and I am looking forward to this opportunity. I can only make music with my colors as it pertains to the Equine and this will be an occasion to expand my senses to the oratory zone. Equine vibrations were also something we discussed during our initial study and after reading through the last entries in my Equine journal I find myself even more drawn to experience this interpretation of the Anomaly. I know this sounds a bit cryptic, but you will see what I mean when I relate the next Equine entry. I want to have the additional experience of the conservatory concert to enhance my understanding of the entries before I relate them to you. There are two separate journal passages describing the Equines first encounter with the inhabitants of New London and the oratory reference in each entries does not seem to be coincidence with my chance to attend this conservatory performance. I will wait till after the concert before attempting to read these again and transcribe them to you.

The landscape is slowly becoming green again as we climb into the mountain range surrounding Newton. I will not stop there this leg of the journey but have planned to do so on the return trip. I need to replenish my supply of coffee and hopefully a new supply of pytherium as I stated earlier. The train will only be in the station for an hour before resuming the journey to Delphi so I will have no time to disembark. The stopover is longer on the return trip and I plan to do my supply errand then. It is a pity I was unable to find a pytherium source near the studio, but I think my best option is to grow the plant myself. I will have to ask the herbalist if this is possible in the dry conditions surrounding my home. I know producing my own coffee is not an option so I will just have to be frugal with my new acquisitions this trip as my last supply ran out too quickly.

I find it difficult to grasp that I have been on Nova Britannia now for over six planetary months. The time has sped by so quickly as I struggle with my project schedule but is still seems an eternity till you are due to arrive. It is only another half year but the waiting is excruciating.

Miss you terribly,

Victoria