I've never really been one for this celebration. Still, thank you, all of you, for the gifts. I have not yet looked at them, though. I suppose I would rather you were here when I did.

I'll be staying in the library mostly still.

[for a moment, Patchy sounds very ill, or at least short of breath]

...four times...

[she finally catches her breath]

Nowhere is safe, is it?! This is becoming a bit of an annoyance...!

I cannot work with all these cows and other animals in the library. When, exactly, did the mansion name us all as zookeepers?!

I think I'm going to go take a short walk... if only so I can, hopefully, get away from this frustration.

So... there are now birds in my room. Ornithology was never really something I took too much interest in, but I'm quite certain that those are turtledoves.

The mansion does tend to give rather strange gifts...

I also took that little statue of me off of the tree. There was one of Lulu that I wanted to take, but I didn't... actually, I couldn't.

...will somebody explain this pear tree?

It'll give me something to research, anyway.