A city underwater:
Dear diary,
I haven't been living on Rapture for long, but one thing was for sure;
It is beautiful!
The windows, unlike on land, are a clear pathway to see the deep blue ocean. She had to admit though it isn't my choice to move here it had been daddy's decision to move here, daddy said he had been very close friends with Andrew Ryan, and he wanted to live in the city his friend had created but there was a plus to it.
Apparently he would get his own company called Fontaine Fisheries. Mother doesn't like the idea, says it will end up just like the titanic; us dying because we had drowned. He said not to fear, Ryan had his ways. I believed him though.
I am worried that daddy will become cuckoo just like the rest of the people in this city, my other daddy told me so, he told me that Frank would turn against us and butcher my mother and I. What does butcher mean though? I must ask my mother or it will flee from my mind like my thoughts if I didn't write them down in this old book.
Mary Fontaine,
April 5th 1941