Why, why do you keep coming here to find me?

Did I not tell you I was hiding? Hiding--as in trying not to be found.

It is not safe for me or my family if other Shulacks know where I am. Very bad trouble. Why do you keep coming here?


Talk? What should we talk about, Daeva? I know nothing that would interest a Daeva....

Ah! Perhaps I do! There is a book...Daeva like books! Dorkin knows where a Research Journal is...sort of.

Do you want to have a look? It might contain much information. If I tell you where to find it, will you keep my location secret?
This other Daeva, Marica, she left the book in my sleeping hole. It was too lumpy to sleep on, so I threw it away.

I do not know exactly where it landed, somewhere by Taloc's Boughs. Daeva Marica is mad she lost it. She is rude, so I do not tell her where I think it is.

You should find the Research Journal. Take a peek inside. Maybe return it to Marica...or maybe not?




A Shulack hiding in Taloc told you where to find my book?

Why that despicable fuzz ball! I hope his whiskers fall out!

That journal contains years of research notes! I've been trying to find it for weeks, but every time I stopped and asked that Shulack about it, he always said he hadn't seen it! Phony shade-loving roach!
My research journal?

You really know where it is? Asmodae's mittens! I have to get it back! It's got years of data in it!

Unfortunately, I can't leave right now. Could you please go look for it?
This is the diary I kept when I was investigating Taloc.

This one day, I was being chased by a swarm of bugs and I stuffed the journal into a hole to keep it safe. But when I went back for it, it was gone!

Did you read it? Wait, this isn't my book! I think it's a journal from an exploratory expedition to Taloc. I wonder who wrote this, and when? Hmm...interesting...I'll have to study this.