Kassi Log-Mistress

Kassima: "I wonder whether it's a good sign or a bad sign, when everyone suggests asking you every time someone mentions needing a log."

Kassi Log-Mistress

Once, a man @tel'd boldly into Telgar Weyr, 
Seeking someone to question at length,
To see what logs could be found in Telgar's hands,
So to judge for himself Telgar's strength.
Behind lay a man considering transfer,
And he waited his friend's word to go--
So, he asked a bluerider, "Where can I find logs?"
And the man said, amazed, "Don't you know?"

Chorus:
Just ask Kassi Log-Mistress, keeper of the archives;
She logs everything, yes indeed!
And with her store of records, we fear no history loss,
Though for half of 'em, there is no need!

She's got logs of the time when at Benden we rode;
To that place, we can never return--
But she'll take us back with the things in her files,
Half of which we could wish were well-burned!
When she lays near to death, everything that she knows
Will be passed on to someone, someday--
For, you see, she can't bear to let knowledge be lost,
Regardless how for that loss we pray!

(Chorus.)

When asked, she'll produce through her most detailed means
Logs of Hatchings, and Clutchings, and then
She'll raid her collection of Gathers and flights,
And to you the whole danged shebang send!
If anyone should ask for a log she has not,
She'll at once begin looking around,
Asking questions, and pestering, and searching until
At long last, that sharding log she's found!

(Chorus.)

Much taken aback was the man by this speech, 
And he waited no longer that day,
But @tel'd on back to speak with his friend at once--
Went in haste to his own Weyr away.
His friend heard his news, and then said, "This is strange,
That she should so many logs own;
No one who is sane would use up drive-space so,
Which just proves what I have always known!"

She is Kassi Log-Mistress, obsessive-compulsive,
As crazed as can be, yes indeed!
Shown by her store of records, her sanity is lost...
But at Telgar, for that, there's no need!


			---Written by Kassima

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