Still Stuck

We're still waiting to get going here. I'm told they're going to try waking up our pilot a little early to see if we can get things rolling before sunset. The yela'kaja keeps apologizing profusely for the delays. Apparently the people who set up this trip for me were going very fast and didn't go through all the protocols, so the route and preparations couldn't be adjusted in time. He seems very angry that my original yela'kaja and the council that advised him came up with this idea and carried it out so badly.

I seem to see a pattern of one Xala cursing the incompetence of another Xala, especially when they depend on each other to do their jobs. It started when my first yela'kaja was just a little pissed at the location of his entrance on Earth and the problems it gave him (which likely included me). Most of the time Xala run things smoothly with machine precision, but whenever one of them seems to be slacking or makes a mistake, somebody's in his face screeching -- and sometimes a whole pack comes down on him. Laziness and incompetence seem to be the very worst sins for a Xala.

Ah, well. I'm not that bad off. The Ngana keep me company. I seem to have made a friend of one of them. I can't remember his name, but he likes to follow me around. They're all a bit curious about me, always asking why I'm alone on the ship, and how I got here. When I told them my little story of getting knocked out in the middle of the street they all laughed at me.

Their own ka'kaja had some problems, but they had all been taken care of quietly. They tell me that the yela'kaja apparently entered below a remote village (I say below because all Ngana live high in the trees) with a huge blast that nearly knocked everyone out of the trees and could have started a forest fire if the place had been drier. They didn't find out about that until later, though, after a mysterious and strange-looking Ngana climbed up from the forest floor. The people of the village swore he was a ghost come back from the spirit world the entire time he was observing and living with them until he went to one of big clan leaders and showed some fancy technology.

I can't go into much more detail, as the Xala don't want me to put down information that could give away their yela'kaja back on Earth (they told me they sent a new one, but they won't tell me where he entered or anything else), but lets just say it's a very funny story and I hope I can put the whole thing down when this is all done with.