( 54 ) [voice]

[filial_guardian]

Another clear day. Snowfall is becoming less and less frequent with each passing week. ...But spring weather can't come soon enough; the lake needs to get warmer.

[There is a significant pause here, hesitant, before the scribbling for a journal lock is done.]

[Filtered to Shirley - 99% unhackable]

Merines? May I see you?

[ooc: Affected and

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[voice]

[xelhes]

When did the spring weather start last year?

[She would tease you about your late gift, too, if that filter weren't a hundred billion times stronger than she could ever deal with.]

[voice]

[filial_guardian]

Around this time last year. I wasn't exactly keeping track. [Now he's feeling like he should have.]

[voice]

[xelhes]

And not a day too soon.