The Hypothetical Diary of Jillian Grey
August 29th, EY217
So, now I've got a criminal record. For vandalizing public property. Kind of ironic, don't you think?
I feel bad about V ending up in prison, but by Zarathustra's hairy balls, did it ever feel good to see Alexei with blood on his face. Don't know how I'm ever going to repay V for that one. I mean, the obvious thing would be to find some way to inflict a painful death upon her uncle Nicolai, but she didn't seem especially enthusiastic about that idea. Plus he might already be dead. At least I managed to get the police to promise to let her have Knuta back when she gets out. And I should definitely bring her some cigarettes.
Had an interesting meeting with Bishop after we got out of lockup. This "life quest" thing of his -- I'm really touched. Is this what it's like having friends? Malcolm and I have always sort of kept each other at a distance, but somehow Bishop and V are really shaking things up.
Meeting (finally) with the xenotech prof went well. Confirmed our suspicions that this alien ship sighting was something unprecedented. Also, Bishop's apparently having dreams about alien tech (WTF?). Not sure if the prof believed him. I think I do, though. No weirder than the grubs.
Speaking of the prof, he gave me a scare with this totally random rant about "tattooed criminals." Had me convinced for a minute the Black Rose was on Daebak. When I called him on it, though, he just went vague and hand-wavy about "unsavoury types" and cast suspicious looks at Malcolm's navy tatt. So probably it's nothing. Fuck, though, that corpse on the pirate ship has me jumpy. (Wish I'd had a look under the clothes of the rest of those guys. ... Okay, really, no I don't.)
Working on a new sculpture. Going well, though I'm having some trouble getting the bits to stick together properly. Might need some better glue. Working title: "Alexei Rusanov will Rot in Hell (hopefully soon)".
I think Malcolm likes Alexei's art, btw. He says he doesn't, but I could tell he was lying. Fuck.
Looks like we're going to hire a temp engineer to tide us over, do a few small jobs in-system till V gets out. Hey, at least V's still alive. Maybe the curse is broken? (Haha, just joking diary, there's no such thing as a curse! .... Right?)