TITO BING'S NOTEBOOK






















Entry  1: Year 6, Month 3.11. Daylight.
This is “Tito Bing’s Notebook,” a project rightfully named after a discovery made in an abandoned solar in Baguio City during my team’s search for the elusive Bernardo De Leon. He was a professor of history at the University of the Philippines Baguio, a colleague of the country’s authority on Naermyth, the late Professor Gregorio Benevidez, and was previously kidnapped and freed by the traitor Aegis and her winged, mysterious companion. Given the recent turn of recent events, the National Bureau of Conflict and Transport (hereon in NaBuCAT) found it necessary to acquire Professor De Leon’s assumed expertise on Naermyth cognitive, social and biological characteristics.  
  
This search for the professor is under the direct command from Head Shepherd Mamon, conferred after the horrible incident in Capiz. With ample regret, the NaBuCAT deserted the peace negotiations with the Filipino Naermyth  when the Luzon diwata septs initiated terror attacks on the Bureau and the amicable Naermyth in the vicinity. They were accompanied by rebel Shepherds from the Taal district in an attempt to capture the traitor Aegis whom we thought had assimilated to our cause. With little else to hope for, NabuCAT found it necessary to return to Luzon and recruit Professor De Leon, that he may help us seek yet another solution to the republic’s adversity. 

The professor was last seen being escorted back to Baguio by Arayat diwata, and his whereabouts till this day are unknown. We have searched his make-shift apartments at the University. It was cleared of all paperwork, weapons and book that might have been useful to the renowned professor. His last known   address was nothing but a heap of rubble, probably the aftermath of vicious earthquakes that hit Philippine’s elevated grounds during the Naermyth wars. However, with further investigation, we’ve discovered the professor’s ancestral home registered under his mother’s maiden name. There, we’ve determined that transients – hopefully the professor himself – lived inside the bungalow for at least a week. The rotting food couldn’t have been more than five days old and the outhouse contained evidence of recent defecation. Still, we could not be sure if the professor had been there – not with the evidence we had to go by. That is, until Shepherd Kagat made the discovery.

He found it under the lumpy mattress and wrapped in urine stained sheets. It was a notebook of thick, red pleather – a generic brand found in the local bookstores – and was worn at the spines and edges. The pleather peeled at the slightest touch and its form was warped by the bulk of pictures and clipping inserted between the pages. Inside were a series of entries detailing characteristics of most if not all Filipino Naermyth known to the Bureau. Accompanied by illustrations and clippings accumulated over the past five to six years, we believe that the notebook will serve as a useful encyclopedia and perhaps a temporary replacement for the professor’s much needed intellect. But oddly enough, it also contains text pertaining to the traitor Aegis and her Shepherd family. Although we are eager to return to the Manila headquarters to surrender such valuable information to Head Shepherdess Mamon and the newly appointed Secretary of Defense, we must continue on with our mission for fear that the professor might be in dangers or, worse, deceased. 

In all loyalty to the Bureau and the Filipino Republic, I submit this as my first entry to the Tito Bing’s Notebook project.
Shepherd Hyatt, Head Kwago of the Paranaque Ruins district. 


Entry  2: Year 6, Month 3.12. Daybreak.
After thorough deliberation, we have decided to send Head Shepherd Mamon the following pages. We are certain such text would not compromise our mission in Baguio, and the H.S. will have been informed of our discovery. 

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