#noblestrength

Bringing my skates with me to use until I get to the dirt path outside of town. Hopefully that'll help speed things up a little.

What else, what else.. Water? Got it.. Flashlight! Oh, definitely my journal so I can share my notes with Entre and maybe we can figure out what to do about all this [if he's not too dense to believe he's failed, that is]. Hm.. I found some canned vegetables under the bed. Guess I could whip those out if I get reeally hungry. I'll bring some extra masks, too.. And maybe some extra clothes and my coat. I don't know how intense it's going to be out there and as far as I know, the factory's set pretty deep into the forest.

My research tells me that unlike animals such as mules and hinnies, plants can't handle being genetically altered or mutated safely. The chromosomes are almost entirely difficult to match up, which is why such animals aren't able to reproduce. In plants however, this serves as a bigger problem. Their structure is so fragile from their cells to the way mitosis is carried out that, when altered, will react in a chemical obstruction.

Apparently there have been scientists and organized labs that tried to emulate what I believe Entre has done, but the experiments were done on a far smaller and, -ahem-, professional scale and were able to be contained before the mutations progressed into a dangerous state.

This is the most difficult endeavor I've ever put myself through. I've spent every ounce of my free time experimenting.. I tried dyeing some ordinary, original colored, store-bought thneeds [the cashier gave me a look.. I had to clarify it was for experimentation only. I guess my reputation precedes me] into the colors that I saw in the store the other day. I tried every method with the fabric dye for all different types of fabrics--fur, cotton.. heck, even leather!

In the end, all of the techniques failed miserably. The thneed would lose its delightful smell, the colors wouldn't mix right, and sometimes the thneed even came out as hard as a rock. Can you believe that there were even MORE problems than these? After all this, I'm just so tired.. But my curiosity keeps me driven. Hopefully all the notes I've taken in my journal will make more sense in the morning.

On the way home from my usual library visit, I noticed something.. different in the local store window. New thneed colors..? From my research, I’ve learned that thneeds are made from the precious tufts of Truffula trees.. and those have only been known to grow warmer colored tufts—the colors we’ve previously known to be the only colors thneeds come in.