Day 10:
Drinking the water tainted by miasma is much worse than breathing the airborne toxins. It burns your throat and then gives you an unbearable stomachache. I threw up everything I drank a few hours after the experiment. I guess a one third miasma water solution (one third miasma, two thirds pure water) is too strong for my first attempt. Then again, when I was trying to build resistance before, I took small doses of miasma and my results were equally small. Perhaps one has to overdose on miasma to make any major progress.
What is really comes down to is do I hurry my research and risk poisoning myself, or do I continue slowly and content myself with gradual results?
Note: Today while I was working by the water a flock of Ghosts attacked me. I dispatched them quickly, but this journal was almost tossed into the water during the struggle. It made me realize how damaging it would be to this expedition if I lost the only copy of the records. In order to protect my findings I've started writing letters of documentation to Amidatty and the leader of the Tipa caravan. Rule two of the Shella scholar: always have backups.
Day 11:
Wonderful news! I decided to be slightly irresponsible and rush ahead with my research. It seems that after just one day of recovery I can drink the same one-third solution that I tried yesterday and be just fine. I went straight ahead to drinking only miasma-tainted water and I feel perfectly healthy. This means that I've finally found a cure! The way to live without crystals does exist! I can't wait to announce my discovery, I've already sent out letters calling the Shella and Tipa Caravans here to Conall Curach.
I hope the letters are all right, I noticed today that the stationary I've been using doesn't hold ink as well as it should. (I'll have to talk to Gurdy about the inferior goods he's selling.) If the mail Moogle isn't careful some of the message could get smudged out. Well, I'm sure they'll get the gist of my message. It's amazing, I'm only sixteen and I'm about to accomplish my life's work. What will I do with the rest of my years? I'm getting ahead of myself. I'll remain here a while longer and do some final tests, wait for the caravans, then return to Shella. Either with the caravans or alone.
