Journal Entry 014/0264 It was very dark and very late when I finally decided to get out of bed.Journal Entry 014/0264 It was very dark and very late when I finally decided to get out of bed. So far I hadn't been able to sleep, and I was getting annoyed. I finally sighed and decided to go upstairs and get myself something to drink. I stepped carefully out of bed so as not to disturb P'nyssa, who was one of the reasons I couldn't sleep. She'd been running a fever all day, and was still hovering about 372 degrees, well over her normal 358. Since humans tend to run at about 370, her body was warmer than mine for once, and I was actually uncomfortable. I was still more worried about her, though, running 24 degrees high like that. That's dangerously high for her, it's like us running close to 400, no fun. I walked under the access portal in the ceiling and leapt up just a touch; the antigrav tractors grabbed me and silently pushed up to the floor above. I grabbed the railing and easily hauled myself into the living room with the familiarity of movement that comes with living in the same home for years and years. I glanced outside the porch glass doors; the snowstorm was still raging as it had been when I'd gone to bed three hours earlier. It was probably the darkest night I'd ever seen on Pendor; usually we get a lot of light reflected indirectly from the other, daylit sectors. But today the blizzard had virtually grounded the castle into the protection of the mountain crater it usually floated above, and the snow blocked the passage of what light there would be. Despite the complete darkness, I maneuvered about my home at complete ease; everything was in it's place, nothing was strewn miscellaneously about the floor; Dave had seen to that. Every night he tended to fix the place up. I guess being an Artificial Intelligence, he has a need for order. I walked over to the refrigerator and was blinded by the light inside as I searched for the orange juice. I found it and, leaving the door open for light, I found a glass and poured myself some. When the door closed, darkness returned, but I was still comfortable. The castle was still warm and quiet, the way it usually is at ten o'clock at night. |