Dear sister,


Finally a moment to myself after two long days of presenting, listening and collaborating. My journal is full of notes from the other presentations and it will take weeks to sort through what is relevant to our work. The use of music and sound as a neurological healing tool dominated the conference. My mind is still buzzing from all the new ideas and horizons that can be explored in regards to our own agenda. I will create a thorough overview of what I consider relevant to share with you upon my arrival in our new home. There will be many static evenings after my research day is done on the Phycodurus 8, to shift through this additional information. We can compare notes on how this new progressive process can be utilized in our final product. For now, I will place it on the back burner as its use will cause additional complication to an already Byzantine project. Before I arrive, you will already be a year into our original process and I do not want to jeopardize any progress by introducing another element.


There are many small hideaways in Paris and I have found one to quiet my thoughts and compose a letter to you. I wished to do this yesterday evening, but the conference ran well into the night and I was exhausted by the time I returned to my room. The variety of speakers this year was overwhelming and I have to choose which to attend since many were presented simultaneously in different halls. My own talk was well attended and there was much interest in future collaborations. Although the first day was restricted to Louvre fellows due to the secrecy of our work, the second day was open to all researchers in the neurological community.


The introduction of our subject as an intelligent being, capable and adept at manipulation of its environment and the inhabitants around it, was received by my contemporaries with the expected response. First the hall was completely still after I read the statement of our new theory, without even a cough to break the shocked silence. The room then broke into a buzz of whispered dialog as the idea propagated through the hall. I guess it was a shock to hear from my own mouth words that I myself thought never to utter. The once abdicate for the neutrality of the Anomaly, now speaking of manipulation and favoritism.


I concluded with the new data recorded near the Flynn Foundation satellite and a hint of the corresponding signals recorded in other concentrated areas of traumatic illness and neurological disease. I showed in parallel the correlated patterns emitted by the Anomaly in reference to the events. This of course was pure improvisation on my part since I just became aware of this ability of the creature myself, but I could not resist sharing this new found knowledge with my audience.


I return to Oxford tomorrow. The next six months will move slowly for me, since this trip will be my last divergent activity before I board the transport to the research station. It will be difficult to leave Earth and all its familiar comforts, but I relish in the thought of what I will discover when I am in close proximity to the creature. What will our instruments have recorded by the time I step into the new lab? What will you have created in the year since your arrival? I will miss Paris and London, but the thought of these new experiences are causing my heart to pound with anticipation.


I think I will order one more glass of ale before I return to the hotel to pack. I feel sleep will not come easy tonight.


Love,
Annalis