Sigrid, I am concerned by what you told me in your last cassette.

I am very concerned.

How could I not be?

It pains me to be so far away from you so I cannot deal with problems as they arise.

I am concerned now that after all this time as my trusted deputy, I still feel like

I must be there to keep order, to keep momentum.

I am concerned that you have allowed this problem to develop as much as it has.

And I am not in a position to travel back to Europe, avoid detection by IID security

teams, to get safe passage north to headmark and resolve what you apparently cannot.

I am of course not unaware that our living situation brings with it some trials, the

occasional tribulation.

If we were free to live openly in a city or a town as others live, we would be able

to benefit from the collective security they enjoy.

From the feeling of collective security they enjoy.

We would look to our street lights and our dead bolted doors and bask in our presumed

safety like the rest of the world.

But we have chosen to live free of their rules and their systems.

And so we have also chosen to live free of the safety that the system can provide.

We know this, everyone knows this.

That's the whole point of what I am attempting to accomplish, to bring us collective security,

to change laws if I can, whether through legislation or changing public sentiments about

the cradle.

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