This journal was originally owned by Thia Fall, June Sandoval's best friend. For the previous entries that have been written by Thia before her demise, proceed here.
Hey, Thia. I'm back. I think you have already expected this to happen, but I told my parents about everything almost immediately. I just knew that I needed all the support I could get.
It... Well, it didn't go badly. I was honestly expecting a bit more shouting, but by the time I'd detailed what had happened so far both mamá y papá understood how serious everything was, and why I had agreed to the Harbinger's deal. They were, and still are, extremely worried, but I'm glad to say that they still have my back, completely. Honestly, I'm not sure what I'd have done if they didn't accept me - I don't think I could've handled that on top of everything else.
Anyway, we decided to follow the most notable lead we currently have with regards to your recent exploits and subsequent death - which will only be temporary if I have any say about it - and drove down to Miami.
We found the college where that Caleb guy you'd met went to, so papá called ahead and set up a meeting with the principal. We expected him to use his status as a forensic expert to maybe have the principal give him Caleb's contact information, or some other useful clues. However, when we arrived there, we soon overheard a girl my age yelling at the principal in her office about Caleb! Papá immediately capitalized on this stroke of luck and entered the office himself, saying that we came for a similar reason. He introduced himself, showed his ID, and explained that he was looking into your disappearance, where Caleb was mentioned as a person of interest. That was... a poor choice of words, because the girl - Victoria, and apparently Caleb's older sister - immediately thought that he thought that Caleb was a criminal. Thankfully, after a bit of a back-and-forth and an apology from papá, she relented, and the principal agreed to get us into Caleb's dorm room.
That place was horrid in the most mundane way possible. Empty and unfinished beer bottles, tasteless pinups, dirty sheets - I'd imagine that you'd describe it as a 'nexus of masculine degeneracy' or something. Either way, papá found a journal lying half-open on the messy bed, which all of us except for the principal got to read.
There wasn't much inside that poorly-written thing that we didn't know already. The biggest relevant detail, I suppose, was that the Harbinger that visited Caleb was called 'The Traveler', not 'The Talent' like yours. Unfortunately, that was it. By the way, did you know that he called you 'Phone Girl' and 'Glyph' in there? I don't know if I should laugh or be offended on your behalf!
But, after that, we offered Victoria our hospitality if she wanted to read your journal entries, and she accepted. I'm... sorry about letting her do it, but I think she needed something more about her brother because his disappearance had clearly hit her hard. I don't know if he's dead like you, or if he just got lost somewhere, but nonetheless we all agreed to share any new information one of us might find in the future, so hopefully some kind of new lead will show up in time.
Victoria left back for Miami a while ago, and I continued preparing for my next contract.
Despite everything, time marched ever-onwards. Though it may not be able to heal everything, the impact of my last contract was eventually softened and made to fade thanks to mamá y papá's love and care. Another thing that helped me with recovering from that ordeal was my intermittent contact with Vivian: she was going through similar things at the moment, and had said that she even went out to a random hospital to heal some injured patients as a sort of penance. I'm sure you'd approve of that, Thia - I sure do.
But, instead of any penance of my own, I decided to get over my moping about in a different way: information gathering. We were given our biggest clue yet with regards to your untimely death, after all, so a good week and a half were spent on milking it for all it was worth via internet sleuthing and papá's access to the law enforcement's criminal records. The latter didn't yield anything when it came to her, but the rest... I was one step closer to getting the both of us some closure.
...Though I'm still unsure if I'd actually pursue it in such a direct way. I'm afraid of dying and leaving both you and my parents all alone.
Papá and I have also did some research on the general area of Ormond and a bit beyond it. The bad news are that the Bastards of Salem have been bolstering their ranks thanks to the whole Equalizer situation - and this unfortunately includes the local chapter's numbers. The good news: I learnt of a local meet-and-greet group of supernaturals as well, primarily Gen-Wyld enhancement enthusiasts. It's apparently been around for about three years already, and is called 'Ormond Oddities'.
Also, we managed to find out about a good dozen or so of supernatural - or supernatural-leaning - people in this area. I've yet to make contact with any of them, but knowing that they exist at all is good groundwork for our whole Fallen Family idea, right?