Things are calm tonight compared to the previous two days. But that doesn't mean everything is peaceful...more like an atmosphere of quiet tension. The sky outside was a dim and dark orange, all from the smokes coming from the unthinkable destruction in the Basin District. It's as if daylight never broke.

I still have not heard anything from Daylram or North Kempton, not through ticker or telephone. That makes me quite nervous, not only because of the plan breaking down, but because I have also heard about that possible Lykian agent on the loose somewhere in this country.

The Lykians are deeply infiltrating us, apparently. We still don't know where those Red Desert explosions came from. I presumed that an aircraft dropped them, but it turns out that the Retunian Air Force tried but were unable to detect any aircraft. There was some sort of blip on the scanners near the Circlarian Coast, but the Defense Department is not certain. Those Red Desert Bombs could very well have been hidden in boats or certain buildings or something like that.

It seems like the Lykians are a parasite, destroying us from the inside out.

So I wonder if Cray Fenton and Tom Pero even made it to the Great North to begin with. After all, I didn't hear from them since before they left North Kempton. I haven't checked in with Sari Frame or Meona Bell either.

Perhaps they are all being held hostage by the Lykians, somewhere in a hiding spot on their property. I know that dymensional planes in one country are a valuable asset to an invading country because of a dymensional plane's ability to store data in concealed ways, meaning that enemy agents can use them to communicate with one another and coordinate attacks from within. It was done before when the Acrean Kingdom launched their offensive upon the Isles controlled by the Vandalish. The Acreans found a way to hack Vandalian dymensional planes, thus figuring out some of their most important strategic moves before they could carry them out.

So it's possible. But I need to remember not to jump to that conclusion until I receive some sort of an obvious indicator. Since everything is shut down, with martial law and curfews and stuff like that, I just need to trust myself over the next three days or so that everything is going to be fine.

I know it makes no sense. But this is honestly the only thing I can do.