Primoday, Guire 3rd 067.M42
The results came in today.
My row officially had an error rate for Jaufre of… wait for it… Two point four seven percent! Less than two and a half percent by the time the full month was accounted for! I was so happy to be able to give the order for them to leave an hour early today. The looks on their faces when the announcement was made and I got to tell them they would get that early finish, they were so proud.
The whole team really pulled together and put their minds to the task, but I've got to admit that the star of the month was Transcribe-Adept Kader. She's kept up a flawless one hundred percent accuracy rate. I'd almost suspect she had a memorance implant, but she claims to have no augmetics whatsoever and that she just has a head for data. She seemed almost embarrassed as I was reading the report out though. I didn't realise she was so shy, she always seems so confident and outspoken. Though I guess it might not be shyness, more modesty… which is an admirable trait, I have to admit. Not one that I would automatically think to ascribe to her, but it's an appealing one.
Kader asked again if I'd like to come for a drink with her, and I would have but during my break today I managed to get Cordell on the vox and actually get some information out of him about Mei for once. Well, I say some information. He admitted that his name is on her birth log and that she is formally named Mei-Lin Mason… and that his PDF wages are being garnished for support. A bitter pill that must be for him to swallow, I'm sure, given how little he seems to want to be involved with her. But that was an amazing break. I have an old scrumball mate who is an adept in the Departmento Munitorum's payroll division, and if Cordell is being forced to pay support for Mei, then I figured her mother would have to keep her details up-to-date in the Munitorum records.
Thankfully I still had Goran's personal vox frequency from the last time the team caught up for a drink and a shinny, so once I got home I gave him a call. He was a little reluctant at first. I understand that totally. It didn't feel good to ask a fellow adept to use his privileged position for my benefit. But… I thought a lot about this last night after I left Mum and Dad's place. I'd like to at least offer Mei's mum a chance for her daughter to know the rest of the family. If she doesn't want to, then that's fine. I'll interfere no more and leave her to her business with Cordell. But it makes my heart hurt to think that my little niece might want to know her grandparents and aunts and uncle, and she can't because Cordell's being a fragger.
Thankfully in the end Goran agreed that it's a pity that Mei is possibly being kept from her kin by my brother's selfishness. He said it'll take him a couple of days to find the data and transfer it to me, but once he does then at least I'll have the mother's vox frequency and her address, and I can try to make an approach. And if this all works, then I think I'll have just managed to swing the greatest Matron's Day ever.
Thought for the Day: There is no greater duty than that of the parent, for theirs is the duty to produce more souls to venerate the Emperor's glory and to fight His enemies.
