C-CAD4-024
Barista: Mikey Jenkins
Date: Dec-28-2019
Receipt: C-CAD4-024
Subject: Business as Usual
The funeral’s in a few days.
Tuesday.
Everyone’s been caught up in the prep. Jackie and Jenni have been doing the bulk of the planning… logistically speaking, of course. Jean-Marc’s been… I don’t know. Holed up in his basement office, working on the “unplanned” planned eulogy. Jericho? Drinking. Obviously. And everyone else has been helping out and setting up. Eight funerals in one day is… a lot. In a practical sense and a… yeah…
Anyway, I wanted to talk about Julia. That mark on her arm? Yeah, it’s not fading. If anything, it’s getting clearer. Looked like a burn at first. But burns don’t ████ ████ ███████, ███████████ ██████. And they definitely don’t █████ ███████ █████ ███ █████ ████ ██ █████. We tested it █████ ██—██ ████████. ███ █████ ███████████? ███ █████ ███████, ████ ██████ ████ █████████ ███████ ███ ████.
She says it doesn’t hurt. Not anymore, anyway. But that doesn’t mean it’s normal. ███ █████ ██ █████████ ███████ █ ██████ ███ ██ ████████ ████, ████ █████ ██████ █████ ██ ███ ███ ███ ██████. I don’t like it. None of us do. We may need to pay Brent a visit in the █████████ ████ so he can take a look at it. No one else in our circles is quite knowledgeable about things like this… except maybe Felix. But… yeah.
Now, onto Katherine.
She’s stabilizing. Fast. Faster than we expected. A few weeks ago, we weren’t sure if she’d even survive whatever the hell the Zulus did to her. But now? She looks… healthy. Not █████-█████, but she’s looking better. Less pale. Smoother movements. Not constantly fighting for control. ██ ██████ ███ ███ █████ ██████████ ██████ ███████ █████.
The biggest change? She’s dreaming.
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Hm… We’ll keep running tests. For both Julia and Katherine. Sahir said he’d see if we can get a visit in with Brent. Dicey on that. But Sahir’s got other connections. Someone in the Coffee Trade’s bound to know something.
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“In the Dog(head) house.”
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