- - Over - Oblivion - -

Everyone in this house is up to something these days, it seems. Pleasantries aren't very hard to muster, but I don't care to spend as much time in the common areas as the rest of these people. The smell of the main common room in particular is a sour one: someone has been exercising in there and their sweat is too heavy on the air. I suspect one of the younger kids, someone who enjoys a diet which includes vinegar chips. What a vulgar scent, vinegar... Chemical, smoothe as such, but pungent and unforgiving. The strawberry scent in the kitchen proves that far too many confections have been in the works since L's return... I don't much like the smell of strawberry, either... I prefer the sugar sweet scent of garbage to the fructose obnoxiousness of strawberries any day. It's a more beautiful sweet, sticky and oily and very nice against the palate, when you can find things that carry the same flavour.

That's too much waxing poetic, I have work to get down to. It's been a while since I last bothered to dissect a frog- when I can manage more rare and interesting finds I certainly appreciate it, but frogs have been turning up dead in part of the yard lately, near a dip that leads down towards an apparent water retention trench. I'm curious to see what turns up.

Oh, also... Someone here has been smelling of blood lately: iron rich, a person that eats their dark, leafy greens in the proper proportions, so I suspect one of the older inhabitants of this place. I haven't gone so far as to stand in the hallway and 'sniff them out,' but I find it rather curious that someone can smell so thickly of blood while I have not heard any rumours of serious injury, accidental or somehow intentional. I'd like to know who is bleeding here. I'm rather cavalier about the hierarchy here when it comes to succeeding L so I'm not intending to brag, but I certainly have enough medical skill to fix you if you've broken yourself. Remember this next time you become wounded and keep it secret. I will maintain confidentiality, rest assured, I would simply enjoy the opportunity to work with warm, living skin.