Field notes, Mann Islands

It's hard to think about what I'm doing right now except in terms with which I'm familiar, so ...

Field notes, Mann Islands experiment, Log 1.

There's a definite sense of anticipation right now - maybe it's just me, I don't know if my ... err, study partners? feel the same way, but it's like when you put Ardyne salt into a flask of sea water and there's this slight vapour that fizzes up a bubble at a time until suddenly WHAM the whole thing foams up and all over the place. I can see that whispy precursor wafting off the crests of the waves alongside our pathetic boat, lighting on Rodjer's messy hair, or lightly resting on Tadrek's decorated shoulders. Every time any one of them moves there's a little more fizz, a few bubbles of potential action building up with the full expectation of a future explosion. Every time Su-Ana puts her fingers on those damned cards I can hear the flask quaking with its own need to ... to become, I can feel it getting warmer in my hands. We are a catalyst, and if we're not neutralised soon this whole thing we're in is going to react.

And I want it to change. I think ... I think maybe we're working against ... No. I don't know. I asked Su-Ana and I thought she answered me, it sounded like she answered me, but when I lay down last night to think about it, I realised she never told me a damn thing.

I don't care, for what it's worth. In all of nature we see it happen all the time, the thing that is best rises to the top, and everything else finds a niche to fit into under it so that everything is balanced. Everything fits. But some things don't want to stay in their niches, and they're like catalysts I guess, they step out into another species' territory and they make things fizz and pop and explode and then things change. That's how animals and trees and everything change, something reacts with them and they bubble up and when they settle down they're different. We're going to do that to the dragons, I think, because they've been stable for too long, and they need a little fizz so we can see into what shape they settle when we're done. That's natural, right?