Acquisitions #0178-1175-a-b Transcripts

The full transcripts of Acquisition #0178-1175a and Acquisition #0178-1175b are as follows. For more information visit the Archivist-in-Residence update post on the subject.

Acquisition #0178-1175a Transcript:

My boy,

I was able to make arrangements to visit you sooner than I originally anticipated. I feel for your loneliness, and know what a contrast it must present with the sweet fellowship we have held together so unceasingly a few months ago. I am now only sorry so many days must elapse before I see you. Don't, dearest boy, for heaven's sake, make them any more numerous than need be. I will be arriving at your door this Friday evening and I will not be leaving until the following Friday. 

In the meantime, remain focused, full and by. I will be breaching the horizon in due time.

All my love,

Cyrus

Acquisition #0178-1175b Transcript:

My darling Cyrus,

Please forgive this intrusion. I can imagine after sharing the same bed for a week little is left to the imagination of who the other is. How deeply I have missed the feeling of your skin on mine, embracing you in such a way where I melt into you. I can imagine you will find this impatient scribbling of mine until your next trip when you plan on using this suitcase again, but I hope it will not take so long. This note is meant to remind you who you are.

You are my anchor. You are what keeps me from drifting from shore into the uncertain tides and monstrous unknowns. You were correct in surmising my loneliness and research led to a paranoid dread that haunted me in the form of those accursed pink-hued visions. The moment your arms wrapped around me I felt the entirety of my soul returning to my body, I collapsed into you. You held me as I wept, not a single word had been uttered between us, and I knew in that moment that you are my home and I am lost without you. When your lips met mine I finally knew how I need you how I need to breathe. You are an oasis in the desert, quenching me and granting me shade from the harsh and unforgiving sun. I lose myself in my work so I may once again find myself in you. Perhaps this is unhealthy, but I am forever grateful that you have decided to keep ahold of me after all this time. 

I am writing this as you sleep next to me. I pray you do not wake early and ruin the surprise. You are leaving me today, but I know it is not forever. I have faith I will see you again soon, and I shall count every single second until I do.

Eternally your boy,

Niklaus