Tertioday, Bertzia 20th 067.M42

I finally got the picter footage from Daisy's file from the Magisters. I arrived home to find the files pushed to my home cogitator from the Magisters' stack. I... may have bitten off more than I can chew. There's so much footage here. The footage from her hab is marked "Elysian", which at least makes it easy to know where to start. But after she leaves the hab, every feed is named according to the owner's personal data scheme - some are date based, some are named according to the building or business that the picter is located in. I can sort the files by the date that they were saved, but some are simultaneous feeds, different views of the same location. Some are going to have a better angle - but then for each one I'm going to have to look at all the feeds and judge this. Not to mention that they've also pulled im picter footage from the surrounding blocks, just in case there's anyone suspicious that they want to track the movement of. I can see why the magisters didn't have the manpower, not for a middle-hive single mother.

But I've started going through the footage, and I've managed to piece together at least the first five minutes of her journey. She comes down from her hab and through the foyer, with a shopping basket and what looks like a list in hand, so she's clearly going shopping, as the Magisters said she appeared to be. The next few feeds I've been able to piece together from the list seem to show her making her way out, joining the crowd on the street and just heading off down the road. She doesn't seem to be doing any window-shopping or dawdling, she's focused on her list and it seems like getting on where she's going as soon as possible. Which makes sense with Mei being left at home like she was. She looks like she doesn't want to be going out, but it's a necessity.

It's going to take me forever to get anything useful out of this mess, but at least I can start. Maddy said she'd come over tomorrow too, she has her own slate, so we can try to at least get a couple of feeds going and see if we can winnow out the most useful ones. Once we've picked up the point where we seem to lose her from the pict streams, then we can at least see what businesses and so forth are in the general area, and perhaps maybe we can go out there and start asking anyone if they saw her that day. It's another long shot, but it's the best chance we have, I think.

I don't know what I'm hoping to find. I guess an answer, a reason. A perpetrator that we can hand footage of over to the Magisters, so they can go and find and arrest him, to give Daisy and Mei some justice and closure. But I can't shake the feeling that might just be hoping for far too much. It's more likely that all we'll get out of this is finding the point where she disappears from the feeds, and that will be it. I pray to the Emperor that He will guide our eyes and hands as we try to find what happened to Daisy.

Thought for the Day: The foolish man puts his trust in luck, the wise man puts his trust in the Emperor.