One Less Than Before
What was that edict again? Time allows the nurturing of wisdom? If so, Korvath-is acts as if he has never emerged from the pulsating sacs of the Azworm.
He still claims that the Vrans' miscalculations back on Orval are to blame for the “disrupted” landing. My findings suggest that airborne spores conflicted with our telemetry, which caused our descent to largely diverge from its projected arc. Korvath-is dismisses this theory, stating that a mighty craft of Orval would not succumb to “small, microscopic objects.”
I would have pointed out the redundancy of using “small” and “microscopic” in the same description, but I chose not to criticize his clumsy handling of a simple language due to the recent incident with Irdat Kron. Yesterday, Korvath-is reviewed my findings and declared that we should refer to ourselves as “he,” “him”, and every other word generally associated with the males of this planet. To clarify, we found that there are categories of people here known as “genders.” From what we have initially observed, these classifications are based on differences in physical and biological traits. The males head societies known as patriarchies while the females are in charge of matriarchies. Both sexes can exist in either but with markedly different positions of prominence, rules, and interactions. Patriarchies predominate in several densely populated areas, so naturally Korvath-is wanted to be linked with the most powerful class.
Anyway, Irdat attempted to point out our oversimplification of human relations, noting that we have only spent a short amount of time here. He explained that “power” as it is proclaimed by the males is often based on a delusional understanding of the term. Irdat determined that both men and women have short life cycles, which I too confirmed. Based on a biological standpoint alone, their shared fragility means that males are no more important than the females, and vice versa; they are equally worthwhile or worthless depending on subjective measurement. Korvath-is snorted at this conjecture and reasserted our claim to manhood. Irdat retorted by saying that his stubbornness resembled that of a “16-year-old girl.”
In response, Korvath-is smashed Irdat's ganglionic structure through his posterior. Whether or not he understood the Kron's insult or was merely displeased with his insubordination, I do not know. I was upset at Irdat's termination, not because of the ganglion's awkward exit, but because we no longer have an intelligent Kron to advise us. Wisdom is now in short supply when we need it most, and I am afraid it will dwindle as more time passes.
End his entry.
