Γ 10

Given the reputation this month has for dangerous curses, this weather is most unsettling. I haven't ventured outside-- it's like a wall outside my window, and though I've more or less gotten used to this place, I wouldn't trust myself to find my way through Viron in such conditions.

Is everyone all right? Rain, especially, as I know you prefer to be outside-- have you found somewhere safe to wait this out?

May Tenebrous Tartaros keep us safe; although it isn't his day, I feel sure this fog belongs to him. And Hierax-- no. Why do I always speak of death, here? This place is endlessly unsettling.

In lighter things, I wonder if someone could explain this to me-- why do you call your ninth month september and your tenth october? Don't those words indicate seven and eight?

Also, I believe I heard that the ducklings have hatched-- are they doing well?