This calls for an emergency minnow sandwich

Hello there chaps. I have to say I find myself a little unsettled!

I have been down to the temporal lab this morning, it was marvellous, as always to spend time with Brian and Debbie. They are such optimistic young otters who normally tell me extremely interesting things! Today was no exception, it was a very interesting visit and no mistake, interesting but unsettling!

It started off like any other visit, with excellent snacks and a good catch up on what has been going on. There have been quite a few routine temporal trips to brazil now I understand, Peter and Zsofia have become very good friends with their Rainforest Raft counterparts I am told, and they have a lot of useful insights into the way of life of these large river fellows! Simon Swifttail is very happy too because there are lots of small tie ins with the prophecy! No sign of the Otters of the Apocalypse yet mind you, contrary to what the OIA think these Rainforest chaps are not them. No, I tell you they are definitely not! I can feel it in my whiskers!

Anyway, where was I? Ahh yes, interesting but unsettling discussions! During the course of our conversation this morning, just as I was considering sending out for more snacks, Debbie mentioned that they were doing their monthly audit of the time logs.

They have to tie up the amount of time that has run through the wheel with the time logged by each expedition team, which is not as simple as it sounds, or so I am told. I mentioned at this point that it didn’t sound simple at all to me, all that time flowing backwards and forwards and the like. I am assured that the totals are all logged by a technical device that goes beep at monthly intervals. Monthly in relation to the time wheel that is, rather than real months. I must admit they lost me a bit there, but I trust them to know what they are doing!

The important thing in this process, I am told, is to make sure that the time totals both forward and backward for all of the teams tallies with the total that had moved through the time tank. Now the unsettling thing is that it doesn’t!

According to Debbie Shorttail, there is a fairly significant discrepancy between the total timeflow and the time logged by the teams. She has been noticing small differencesfor the past few months here and there but each time put it down to hamstershenanigans, adventuresome nephews and the like, but this month the differencewas a little bigger so she decided to look back a little further and noticedthat every month there is a difference. What is more concerning is that someonehas apparently been trying to cover the extra time flow by submitting logs thatdo not appear to tie in to any authorised expeditions!

This whole thing is exceedingly concerning and Brian and Debbie have decidedto do a complete audit of all time activity. They have enlisted PeterPaddlefoot’s help as he has extremely detailed records.

I am expecting further reports into what is going on in short order! In the mean time I think this calls for an emergency minnow sandwich