( Week VI , Week VIII )
Saturday
Maintenance here is completely different to our old home! The Quergs are so advanced that they take us away for a little chat and a cup of coffee! Can a robot actually drink coffee? Well, apparently so, or whatever the Quergish equivalent might be. The maintenance Querg didn't elaborate. There aren't many robots here in the Continuum, so I think we are being treated very specially. I asked her about the lurker, but she said that there was no news. My systems have never been in such good order. What is in that coffee?
Monday
Laundry, laundry, laundry. It's a wonderful thing to be needed. We are beginning to get a bit fuzzy minded under the deluge of all the hats from the Bureau, though. It's always hats! Hats, hats, hats! Celia is starting to look a bit askance at it all too. Our supervisor Querg has mentioned that we will be getting other things in the next few days, but for now: Hats! At least there's a variety of colours... We even had our one and only gold bobble so far earlier today...
Tuesday
Golly, internal journal, we found a non-Quergish footprint in the grass (or pseudo-grass) outside the building this morning. Supervisor Querg looked at it most curiously and pronounced himself officially concerned. The Querg Continuum is a free society, but people are discouraged from lurking, especially in the environs of the official Bureaus. He says we are protected, but won't say how. We returned the gold bobbled hat today. It was nice to see something so rare.
Thursday
The gold bobble hat is back, and so is our lurker! In fact, he is looking in through the window at us right now, and pulling faces! If I weren't programmed for unfailing politeness, it would be time to run for the hills! Are there hills? I'll have to ask. We can't see any from where we are. Oh now, the lurker has vanished from the window... The golden bobble has begun to glow... It might be time to have a mild circuit shutdown!
Friday
Yesterday was a very confusing day. The lurker turned out to be a nice elephant called Egbert, very pale in colour, who has promised to show us around the neighbourhood over the weekend. Supervisor Querg is checking him out right now, but Egbert is so eccentric and amiable that I can't believe that there's a danger. Celia immediately developed a great affection for him, possibly because he represents an entirely different form of conversation. How on Earth did he get here, though? It's puzzling. And why did the hat bobble glow?
To be continued...
NOTE: France, here I come, and so do cover reviews. Whoop whoop!
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