Quartday, Rami 18th 067.M42

We started moving again after Maddy told me about the news she received from the Feed. I asked her if we should stop and wait, seeing as it would only be a few days until her team got here, but she said no. Her team wouldn't be able to come straight in at this level, they'd have to infiltrate from the higher levels anyway. She then went on to explain why we had to move.

Apparently these things, when the… infestation or whatever you refer to it as… reaches a sufficiently advanced state then they… I didn't really understand how she spoke about it all, I think she was holding back on a lot of things that she didn't want me to know, or that I'm not cleared to know or something. But apparently they start spawning very powerful psykers. And she said that the dream is a sign both that they've definitely got Arlean, and that they've got enough… influence… to start spawning these witch-creatures. And using Arlean, they were able to connect with me without knowing where I was, but the more they connected with me the easier they'd find it to dig us out.

The tone in her voice when she said this sent ice down my spine. I asked her if we'd be able to rescue Arlean from them, if there was any hope at all. She just shook her head and said sorry. I didn't know what to say. I wanted to shout at her, to tell her that I wasn't going to leave my sister behind to die… But she'd been so right about the warnings she'd given me before. She'd told me not to come down here and I didn't listen. I wasn't able to help Arlean by coming down here, and all I've done is gotten myself in more danger. That Maddy had to risk herself to pull me out of. Not that she said that last bit to me, but… Well. I get the feeling that they were pretty unaware of her presence until she'd had to step in to rescue me from their mutant goons.

So we've spent the last two days on the move, going from bolt-hole to bolt-hole again. She's letting me sleep from time-to-time but never for long, and not too deeply. Just enough to stop me from falling over and collapsing, and waking me up after only a little while so that we could keep moving again. I think she doesn't want to take the risk that I'll dream again, it seems to be easier for them to make the connection when you're unconscious and not on guard again.

It's taken the better part of the last two days, but we've finally made it to where Maddy wanted us to be. For the last few legs, she didn't tell me where we were going, and on occasion would even go so far as to blindfold me while she led me around. That was unpleasant to say the least, but as she said - if these things are using Arlean to connect to me… the less I know about where we are, about any identifying landmarks in the area, the harder it'll be for them to use me as a way of finding us. She says they'll still be able to narrow down where we are by using me as kind of a way-point as she put it, but that will be much harder for them to figure out rather than just pulling an identifying location from my mind. I don't even know if we've gone deeper to the centre of the hive or further out toward the edges.

She's left me here while she scopes the area. She says with luck, if they haven't figured out we're heading in this direction, we'll be able to get back up home, where I can try to convince Mum and Dad that they have to go, and she can get in touch with her team and hopefully guide them in down here.

I have money that I've been saving up for my vacation to the spire, as well as for gifts for Mum and Maddy while I was there… Maddy said that I need to get them off-world. I don't know that I can afford that. But I might be able to send them out to Nyx or Styx - hopefully somewhere small and minor out of the way. I'll talk to her when she gets back, ask her what she thinks about that. I don't know.

I want to hope that being down there in the middle of nowhere will be far enough, but… the more I think about it, the less I'm sure.