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Well, it's been a while since I last wrote, but not much has happened. Cindy is being almost embaressingly nice to me, taking me shopping and out to eat, buying me books (including a bunch of schoolbooks, just to make sure I learn) and clothes, as well as loads of toys for Lady Luck. Rarely is there a day when she dosn't pull a catnip mouse or other trinket out of her pocket as she walks in. Lady Luck is turning into one spoiled cat!
I've been busy too, both with work on the glitchier-then-normal GAIA 9 computers and with the studies Cindy insists on me doing. I'm getting to love algebra again! And I've been swimming in the pool a lot, and working in the garden...
But I feel guilty for not finding anything out about the sea-people. To tell the truth, I haven't even tried. I only remembered my promise to the king after a truely awful dream I had a few nights ago. In it, I was running through a rickety old mansion, lost and with a bug head. When I finally found people, they yelled at me and smashed things. I fled to the basement and found a kitchen, but rats jumped out of the cupboards, and when I ran out to the main basement, I found a firefight going on. That's when I woke up screaming... Cindy came running, turned on the lights, hugged me, and insisted I come downstairs and have a cup of hot chocolate and marshmellows, but all I told her was about being lost and the rats. The rest is too clearly a message from my subconsious to get moving. The mansion was the Gambino Mansion, the people were Gambino and his cronies, my bug head was my monster form, and the firefight probably represented the Sniper... All telling me to do something, rather then wait for something to happen, because it'll probably be bad when it does.
I don't want to worry Cindy though, she's got enough to worry about already. I was coming in from the garden for dinner last night and, as I was about to go from the living room into the kitchen, I overheard her talking to Mike on her cell phone again. "Let's face it, Mike," she was saying, "there's really nothing we can do. Those things, whatever they are, are jumping almost absurd distances in no time at all. We thought faster then lightspeed travel was impossible, but they seem to have it down pat. What other tech do you think they have? We don't even have a space program, and you're suggesting fighting..."
I froze and listened as hard as I could. After a pause, she said "I agree with the observatory. All we'd do by spilling the story would be to cause a panic! What's the point of that?" She paused again, and then said, "If it's the end of the world, let people enjoy their last days in peace. That's what I'm doing... Oh, Mike, you don't know how it feels to have a family again!" She listened, laughed, said "I don't mean that!" and listened again. Then she said, "No, I haven't told her and I won't! She's young, she should enjoy herself, not worry about some stupid aliens... I don't know where she is, I'm going to go get her for dinner now."
At that moment, she opened the door, and I was caught. I managed to get her to think I had just walked up though, and hadn't been listening at all. I don't want to worry or upset her either. After all, the world could end tomorrow... I really think it might happen, after what I heard last night! I just wish I could find out what's going on without upseting Cindy... There must be a way!