Dear sister,


A short note to pass the time as I sit and wait for my test to run. Mother will be here in a few hours and I want to have as much free time with her as I can. Father will not be joining her since he is busy with the tax deadline looming. This is always his busiest time of year and he has planned his own trip to Oxford in the summer. It is good to have time with both our parents alone. They always seem to act as one personality when they are visiting together. It will be nice to see the individual for once.


The Louvre has contacted me with an update on your progress to New London. Your ship is nearing the halfway point and they stated that everything is on schedule. After this the messages will be so delayed that there will be no update on your progression until after I have left for my own travels. It is still hard to grasp how far away you are from the Earth at this time. Since you are in stasis, this fact is not evident to you, but you are now crossing the threshold. From now onwards your will be closer to the Anomaly than to me. I hope our Black Swan will enfold you in her protective wings and guide you safely to your new home.


After mothers visit, I have one more month to prepare, pack and ship all the required equipment for my journey and research. It will need to be in the custom warehouse by mid-may in order for the clearance to be completed by my departure date in November. Such a long tedious process, but regulations on foreign material being introduced into the Alpha Centauri system and subsequently New London are very strict. I hope we have done our homework sufficiently or you and I will both have headaches at the end of our journeys. Whether that destination is the Phycodurus or the planetary body of New London, some major recalculations will need to be conducted if all does not go well. Luckily most of the materials we deemed necessary for your productions will be sourced from the New London environment. I envy these new discoveries that you will make during your time on the planetary surface. Maybe you will even find something unknown to anyone in your investigations. The planet has been occupied for two hundred years, but you have a tenacious mind. It is always searching for new material to enhance your creations; a new color, a new electrical emission or some other fascinating property. Such innovation will not have been seen before on New London. I cannot wait to hear what you have discovered when I arrive. Just make sure I can adjust my own work to your ever evolving creations. Our final product will not function if you exceed my capabilities to map your renditions wavelengths and other properties to the human experience. I trust you to keep to my limitations and the parametric of the human brain.


My test is now completed its run and I can button up the lab for the duration of mothers visit. Now for a bit of housekeeping before her arrival. My quarters are a disgrace.


Dream of science sleeping beauty,


Annalis