December 13, 2004
851Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ5gr9Rhads
Finally! On land once again!
Oh my god, I’m starving! I need food, now. Once I get something to eat, I’ll write down how I got off the boat. I can’t write with my stomach eating me alive…
Ah, I feel so fat and happy now! If I move, I might pop!
Anyways, I promised that I would write down how I escaped Ol’ Betsy. There I was, still stuck in the fish box, thinking I would have to ninja-stealth my way off the boat. You know, dead-of-night, daggers swinging, blood everywhere kinda thing. I was preparing to go out with a fight if it ended up that way. But it didn’t.
The whole crew got drunk almost as soon as we landed and everyone passed out about an hour ago. So I got out of my fish box, took a few things I liked from the crew, and walked off the boat. Easy as pie.
Yeah, there were a few fishermen I passed by that gave me these really confused looks. Ok, maybe I flipped a few of them off when I walked by. But besides that it went off without a hitch!
So, now I’m currently in the process of exploring the woods just outside the town. I can’t exactly walk into town square smelling like a week old dead fish. People would think I’m crazy or something.
Hey, I found a stream! I’ll write more after I get a bath.
Ahh, so much better. I haven’t felt clean for like a week! I only spent three or four days in that box, but even then. It wasn’t exactly a luxury hotel at the lab and all…The fish smell hasn’t gone away completely but it’s definitely an improvement.
I got to explore the town a little more, but I didn’t get to see all I would have liked to. There are Marines everywhere. What’s more, there’s missing person’s posters all over town with my face on it. I guess the Doctor found out I had escaped. I knew it was gonna happen, but now it really starts to hit me.
I think this place is called Ismara or something. It’s a pretty nice town by the looks of it. There’s lots of families, though the kids seem to play a little rough. There’s a church, a marketplace, and a harbor for the most part. There’s even some sort of festival going on!
Everyone wears masks and long robes. It makes them look like spirits of some sort. Most of the masks are animals, but there are a few people. They don’t have any mouths though. Weird…
And the food! It smells amazing! I’ve never heard of a lot of these but just by listening, I figured them out. There’s *Yakitori, *Ikayaki, and Dango! My favorite was the Kakigori, it was so yummy!
They strung up these cool lantern things in the trees and across the walkways. They light up and some are even drifted across this big lake by the town. It’s amazing!
The only problem is...this island is so close to where the Doctor is...I can’t stay. I would be found within a week or so. Maybe even a few days.
I’ll stay for tomorrow, and then I’ll have to steal a boat and escape.
Translation:851Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQxryjAcpx9
*Yakitori: Various kinds of grilled chicken on sticks. A popular drinking food.
*Ikayaki: Grilled squid.
*Dango: A Japanese dumpling made from rice flour.
*Kakigori: Shaved ice with syrup. (Essentially, snow cones.)
ns 15.158.61.8da2
