I realized just how great the cold river feels in this season, though. Thanks for that. Also, while moving outside, I'm taking these scenes that I think look nice and storing them as photos. I haven't done that much before now, so it's still a kind of fresh experience. I don't know how to put it, but the photographs kind of feel like paintings. I always thought photos were pretty much the same thing as text. Sure, you can make text into sentences and give it meaning that way, but otherwise it's just symbols. I assumed photos worked the same way. Just a medium of information. Who knows, maybe because I was always using thoughtography for intelligence purposes.

It's not that I especially hated my job at the time. And I still don't think it was that bad. I just feel like those old habits still keep popping up to the surface. Thoughtography is extremely handy. Too handy, to the point that it feels increasingly detached from myself. I'm just stealing photos that someone else took. Probably since I play no role in it, my feelings aren't anywhere in the resulting work either. I bet that's exactly why the pictures you take seem so wonderful to me. You and your feelings are both present in those photos.

To Shameimaru Aya.

How many letters does this make already? It feels a bit strange still keeping this up, but yes, I'm writing to say I'm alive. Recently I've been trying to fix my rhythm a bit, like you told me earlier. I've been going outside. I feel like I'll collapse from the heat.

I've been realizing this stuff recently. When I say that to Sanae, she just gives me this weird grin. It creeps me out. I've been seeing her a lot recently, by the way. Come to think of it, she's the one who gave me this letter set, too. I wasn't exactly writing a lot of letters at the time, so I thought it was pretty strange. The set's about to run out. When it does, it'll be too much bother to buy a new one, so I'll probably be stopping this soon. I mean, it's not like we really need to use letters, right? We can just meet up and talk normally. I started doing this to try and reduce your workload, but it kind of feels like there isn't much point if you're going to keep answering immediately every time.

Ah, looks like I'm already out of envelopes. Well, this will be my last letter then. No need to answer. You can just say it with your mouth. But, I'm living just fine in my own way, so please don't come quite so often. You're kind of fussy, so it gets tiring. It's not that I don't like you or anything, though. See you. Himekaidou