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September 5th, 2012
It's weird. Human hair can be so different. April's is bright, long, and heavy while Jo's is light and soft, and it sort of floats around her head like a cloud.
Just a little scientific observation.
The Kraang must not have treated Jo very well. I came out of the lab at around one-thirty and everyone had gone to bed. We'd made Jo a bed in the main area out of blankets and the beanbag pillows we had lying around. She was tossing and turning, face contorted and eyes squeezed shut. She wasn't crying or moaning, like Mikey sometimes does when he has nightmares. Just... silently suffering. I didn't ask her about it. Besides, when she woke up in the morning she was smiling and cheerful.
Girls are like a foreign language that I'll never understand.
Leo asked her about her parents. Apparently she has some, but she didn't think that they'd be all too appreciative of her mutation. She said she preferred to stay down in the sewers. I don't know why she would, there's nothing to do down here. But Leo and Mikey gave her a tour of the lair and the surrounding sewer tunnels, just so she wouldn't get lost.
The coral on her back hasn't expanded a very significant amount. No more than a millimetre or two. But I'm still worried. It hasn't just grown up, it's grown out. Almost like it's spreading to the rest of her body. I am conducting more experiments to try and find out the reason for this, dare I say, intriguing phenomenon. The exact measurements of the coral are stapled to this paper.
Jo and I have come to an unspoken agreement. I can study her if she can do the same to me. Not in the same depth I do, but observe. She was asking a bunch of questions about us, how we became the way we are, how we got trained, why we wear masks all the time, if we're cold-blooded or warm-blooded (I don't even know). She's super curious. It feels nice to have another inquiring mind around the lair. I don't feel quite as nerdy. She's pretty smart, too. She wanted to be a teacher, but that doesn't seem likely anymore. To make her feel better, I let her teach me advanced algebra.
Leo sees Jo as more of... baggage, I think. He doesn't really talk to her, more polite conversation. She seems to be genuinely trying to get through to him, though. My theory is that she wants to relate to others like her, mutants like herself. Makes sense. It's human nature to seek out those like oneself. I have yet to figure out why this is.
Raph is also sort of distant, but that's just how he is. At least he's trying as well. I think Jo really gained points with him because she likes action and video games, especially the racing game we have for the GameCube. Raph was impressed because April (the only other girl he knows) hates that game and absolutely refuses to play it with anyone.
And Mikey's also really curious about her. He keeps annoying her about how many friends she has or if she's ever gone sky-diving. How is he related to me again?
Oh, and for the record, I'm mentioning this because I'm going to monitor if her mutation changes her personality or preferences at all. I've never heard of such a thing happening, but there's always a first.
Anyway, that about wraps up this report. I'm heading off to bed now.