Dear Diary,

I’m back at work and things are going normal again. I’m not as tired now when I come home but I think that is because I had a vacation so I am able to spend more time hanging out with the orb. I still haven’t gotten over my new found realization that the orb is my best friend. Sometimes though I wish the orb could talk. It gets lonely hanging out with something that can’t answer me back when I talk to it. Sure it can tinkle and different sounding tinkles mean different things and sure I’m starting to be able to understand the orb but it isn’t the same as actually having someone to talk to. It’s almost like having a pet. You can talk to them all you want but they will never answer you back. And the orb has been a lot more vocal lately, as if it is starting to think more. Where would it keep its brain though? For some reason I have the strange image in my head of a brain floating in liquid in a clear orb. Weird. And disgusting. I wonder what the orb’s voice would sound like. I guess that comes back to whether or not the orb is male or female. If it was female I think it would have a voice that sounded like a bell. But I guess that wouldn’t mesh well with its love of dark things. I’m not sure what it would sound like if it was a boy. Maybe there is some sort of computer program that I could use to hear what the orb’s voice would sound like. The orb is calling me again but I think I’ll just let it come to me this time. I like listening to the sound of its tinkles. It’s very comforting to me. When I get stuck in places that are dark and I hear that tinkle I’m not so afraid, almost like it’s telling me that it’ll be okay because it’s there for me. I hope I can continue to protect it and help it as much as it has helped me. I wonder what it would ever need my help with though. It seems pretty tough like it could hold its own in this would. It’s much stronger than I am. Well, it seems the orb has figured out that I was not going to go to it this time and it has come to me. I shall talk more with you later! May the sun always shine!

~Claire