Dear Victoria,

The weather has turned bitter and the passage of autumn has been all too short.  The forecast for snow was announced early this morning and the campus groundkeepers were out in force, salting the many paths and walkways of the university.  The drastic change in weather is prominent in my regenerated limb and I just want to curl up in a sphere next to the library fire like a kitten.  There is of course too much to accomplish for this type of response, but the impulse is prominent.

The school term is almost at an end and I will not be returning to the lecture podium after the winter break.  The college has allowed me the extended use of the laboratory space without the added stipulation of continuing my lectures. I am grateful for this reprieve, but know it comes with added consequences. My association with the Louvre, combined with an added concession to allow limited access to my past research, plays a large part in this allowance. I have no regrets playing this card to relieve me of the bi-weekly lectures.  They will have tight restrictions on what information they have access to, but since that information will be nearly abolished after we reveal our current finding on the Anomaly,  I have no fears access to this outdated knowledge will return to haunt us.  I realize this decision should have been discussed with you as a shared owner of the data, but that is not possible now.  The cross permission father put in place for us covers this type of singular decision. as we foresaw a need to make certain autonomous rulings during this period of separation.  I just did not realize I would be using this clause so soon.

I am currently working on a complete overview of what occurred during my accident in New Zealand.  It is painful and traumatic to relive this episode, but I need to capture the timeline in order to correlate the data recorded with an episodically accurate timestamp. The compression and dilation of time created by my brain during the episode is fascinating.  The analyses of my brain responses during the occurrence that was systematically recorded by the equipment and how my brain documented it are vastly different. After I complete the narrative, a comparison of the different timelines will have to be completed.  How my brain actually remembers the incident and what the numbers indicate.  This should be visible by matching the synoptic delays caused by the flight or fight mechanism between and within the neurons.  It might explain the erroneous frequencies I noted on my first analyses of the figures.  Although I am leaning towards the hypothesis that the Nonpareil had an influence during the accident, the need to rule out all possible alternative explanations is paramount.  It may only be an unexplained arrangement of the signals caused by the endogenous neurochemicals inside my brain.  If the time stamp of the figures from the equipment correlates with the visuals stimulated during the episode, this will give a much needed boost to my conclusions concerning the involvement of the Anomaly. It will be difficult to filter out the temporal dilation and compression caused by the trauma, but it should be possible.

 

I should have done the narrative sooner.  Every day that passes since the onset of the flood causes the details to dissipate and become polluted.  Like the phenomenon of sfumata, losing the details of that dreadful day as they disperse like smoke into the mountain winds. When the narrative is through, I will share it with your presence.  I can no longer refer to this entity as a ghost.  It feels too premeditative.

We will have to see how  your logic interprets this retelling and what conclusions she comes to about the influence of our Black Swan.

Sleep well and with peaceful dreams.

Love

Annalis