Entry#: 026
Date: 11 - 10 - 817 AS @ 13:13 SUT
Title: Untitled.
I managed to get the names out of the two new girls yesterday - Kana Fujiwara and Fumika Minami. Kana is about the same height as me, with a slim build and not much in the way of assets. She has shoulder-length brown hair and her personality seems.... absent. More often than not she's mentally a million miles away and enjoys sleeping a lot. Fumika was a bit more lively, however. She's a good head taller than I am, features jet-black hair all the way to her butt and bears a personality almost the opposite of Kana; loud and proud.
Seems having a taste for girls is rather common amongst the Chrysanthemums - the two didn't have any issues with sharing a single bed, rather they seemed pleased I'd provided just the one. I suppose I should expect that, given the 100% female population of their bases. Then there were the suspicious sounds and voices coming from their quarters after we'd moored at the Barrier Gate for the night. I think they thought the walls were soundproof... that or they didn't care. Not that it's really any of my business.
It also turns out being disowned by your family for being so inclined is a lot more common than it should be in Kusari society. I was told an abridged version of how the two came to be, their story almost mirroring Misaka's - an everyday, upper-middle class family ejecting their daughters because they discovered their preference for other girls, who then turned to the much publicised Golden Chrysanthemums for refuge. A horrible thing to do to your own flesh and blood, really. I couldn't ever imagine my mother doing something like that - I think she would probably be a bit shocked but she would easily accept me and the other half.
However with every cloud there is a silver lining. They have a home amongst the Chrysanthemums, and despite the propaganda by the Kusari government most of the girls in the faction are not the hardcore terrorists they're made out to be. Misaka stands as testament to that fact. With that said, and although I'm in no position to be ordering them around, I believe things would be a lot better for them if the higher-ups of the group abandoned their terrorist methods and chose a more peaceful method of getting their point across.
That, and the cardamine. Every day I see more and more of what it does to people, and each trip to Tau-65 re-teaches me how vile it can be. It can take a sweet, innocent young girl and make her into a hideous monster in just a few months of continuous use.
There are still many people within the GC who refuse to use it though, - especially the newer recruits. Misaka, for example. Unfortunately the twisted rituals the girls take to gain full membership usually end up in addictions. It varies between people - some can take a much bigger dose before becoming hooked, others are lost from the first breath.
I don't want to hate the GC, but after being exposed to their inner workings, I am starting to believe many of them are a lost cause. A lot of their members are now more concerned about their next ritualistic high, rather than their political agenda.
I'm thinking of not going back to Tau-65. I want these two spared the hazards of the slippery slope presented before them by the Chrysanthemums. I wonder if they'll work for me? I'm sure I could find them something to do here. Teach them how to weld, how to navigate, how to fly a fighter, hell even collecting scrap metal. Anything's got to be better than lying in a heap in the corner of a dark room drooling over yourself with an inhaler stuck to your face or needle in your arm.
Kana and Fumika are still asleep, it seems... they would have to be very tired after the crap they've gone through in the last few days. Alas myself and Misaka are wide awake, having well adjusted to living in almost permanent sunlight by standard universe time. I'm going to get myself lost while they're unaware. I really don't want to go back to Kusari now. Entry#: 027
Date: 11 - 10 - 817 AS @ 19:38 SUT
Title: Addendum
I've figured out what I'm going to do. I'm going to go and find that wrecked cruiser the Rogue told me about, the Maelstrom, as it is known. It's supposed to be in a system called Yukon. Problem is I have no idea where that is. Better start asking around...
According to the Rogue it got into a fight with a group of mercenary gunships and was heavily damaged to the point where it was infeasible to bother repairing it. It's been left to drift in space for a couple years now and so far as he knew no-one's touched it. The engines are apparently destroyed and the hull has been breached in a number of places.
It should have something worth taking on it... problem is finding the damn thing.