E-mail, Locked to Harry

[palace-johnny.livejournal.com]

[Sent about a week after Johnny got Harry's Letter.]

Dear Harry,

I never thought of what Liam's doing as retrieving, but I guess it makes sense that you'd look at it that way. It's more... I don't know, sorting? What do you call what you do when you figure out what each person should be assigned to? Where to sell their contracts? And do you ever train? That's more what he's doing. I've been browsing through some journals he has stored, just to see what it's about. The bigger picture, you know? I don't understand much of it; it's really technical. But if I stick through a whole article I can kind of pick up on the main idea of what they're doing. Liam says he doesn't expect me to actually understand or even remember the details; I'm just laying some framework. I'm just trusting that it's worth it, 'cause I spend a lot of time feeling really stupid. Or, not stupid -- ignorant. There's a difference. They talked about it in one of the articles I read.

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