Tala's journal entry, blown up in size so you people can actually see it.

Monday, I don't know what bloody date it is because I don't have a damned calendar and Kai won't get me one. Damn that stingy prick. Some time after dinner, I don't know what time it is because I'm sitting in a bloody tree since it's the only place quiet enough.

Today, Kai called me stupid. I called him a bastard. He replied "I'm just amazed you know the word bastard and can use it in a sentence properly". So I just said "Fk off" and guess what he did! The prick slapped me across the face! And it hurt too! I didn't know he'd get so worked up! Then later Spencer comes in to tell me that Kai just came back from the hospital, apparently they wanted to keep him overnight but he refused, and then he totally thrashed the place.

And then Kai came in to apologize. I thought I went mad. But then Kai said that the doctors are being stupid because they think he has cancer. He started to chuckle, because he was more concerned about loosing his hair after chemotherapy than the cancer itself, if he actually had cancer. I told him to stop being and idiot and that everything was going to be fine. After that he just smiled and left the room. Jeez he can be so weird at times. Dainty little thing, ain't he? Scrawny might be a more brutish word, but it describes him alright. No wonder he's always sick.

Yeah. And he thinks I don't know. I can tell a sick person from a mile away. It's this thing about having a wolf for a bitbeast. And Kai is almost constantly sick. But nobody ever notices. I tried asking Kai once, and the mother hen just sent me out to get groceries. When I got back Spencer said that Kai was back in the hospital. I asked what was wrong. I mean, it's completely natural to ask what's wrong if your teammate spends half his time in the hospital, isn't it? But Spencer just gave me this look so I didn't get an answer.

What the hell do I have to do just to get some answers around here! Well, for starters, I marched over to the hospital (fine, I took the car, but still!) and demanded they tell me what was going on. I nearly passed out when I heard the answer.

Kai had cancer. And if they didn't fix it soon, it'd become too bad to save, and Kai'd die. But Kai kept refusing to stay overnight for treatment, because he was too worried about "his family", meaning us. I asked them how it was possible, and they just said that it was probably due to too much stress that triggered it. I told them about Kai always being sick, and they said that it was probably the early stages of cancer. I swore so much they were going to send me to the asylum. I told Hiro, and he agreed to try and get Mr. Dickenson to help. The old bat told the damned counselor, so Kai stopped going there.

I told Kai I knew what was going on. He just smiled and said that if he died it'd make no difference to the world, since all that belonged to him would go to us, and that there'd be enough money to hire a maid till we're all old and prune-ish. Have you ever realized raisins looked like old people? Anyway, I told Kai to march his ass back to the hospital or I'd tell everyone who he was seeing, but that was one bluff that didn't work because Kai knew that no one knows. He just kept smiling and told me to wait outside for dinner.

It's amazing that he still wants to look after us when he's so sick. I'm going to have to do something about it, but I have to do it alone. Shit.

Tala, Me, in a tree, goodnight.