Septday, Jaufre 19th 067.M42

Father Rainaud bid us say an extra prayer tonight for the souls who have gone missing from their homes and places of work. It's a sad state of affairs, every day you hear of someone just… disappearing. A flyer is put on a wall, a notice is read out in Shrine, a memo goes out in the Administratum bulletin. Sometimes they're found safe. More often not. And more often than that, they're not found at all. So we pray to Him, that He will keep His gaze on them and should the worst befall them, then He will see them safe to His side.

I made sure, beyond my extra tithe for the week, to add another ten scrip to the collection plate tonight. Father Rainaud has been collecting for the Orphanarium again, one of the missing is a young mother from our very own congregation. He says she simply didn't report for her shift at the public Librarium the other day, and hasn't been seen since. Her husband was PDF, mustered for the Guard Tithe this year just gone. He was a child of the Orphanarium, and her only kin is a sister who works on in one of the Agri-camps serving Tartarus - she has no capacity to take on her sister's wards. So like their father before them, the children go to the Orphanarium, and the congregation will do what we can to sponsor their needs, at least until one is old enough to work for their living.

I pray she will return safe, but secretly in my heart, I have my doubts. For a mother to leave two young children alone and just disappear… some ill must have befallen her. Emperor watch over her.

I had wanted to write some more of my new duties - they're fascinating, but so time and energy consuming. I've barely made it home on my feet before falling into my bed the last two nights. But I feel it might not be appropriate to revel in my good fortune in the light of the news of those poor children. Perhaps tonight I might leave this journal with my thoughts of their mother and my prayers for them.

Thought for the Day: The only thing worse than dying young is life eternal.