12·torua

Part II closes with the words time itself goes by (day, past, future, now) and a form to hold them: the journal. Phi journals in fragments: a time-phrase set down alone, like a date, and then plain sentences. The household keeps one. Three entries:

SceneI

luera philo.pheralu to lepa. moru to lepa.ha philo.phao moru ki shiroka. lo mia therilu.wireo philo.melu so shua. lo mia mua thepalu so wile.

Three date-lines, three days. ha philo you can almost read unaided: here-day, today. luera philo, the past's day, yesterday. wireo philo, the future's day, tomorrow. The compounds are relatives of the tense particles, and the entries beneath them use grammar you already have: fell, has-repaired, will-come.

SceneII

theula philo. sileta rihe. shero shua.theula miona ro rihe.theula pelori ro meliho.

Every day: sun up, night down. theula before a noun gathers all of its kind (every person, every bird), and theula philo, set down alone, is the journal-date for the things that are true daily.

SceneIII

Wider than days:

wirae shua. lo peloru sheloa.keloi shua. waero sulae nai.muero shua. lo pelori wepu.shila shua. waero pelui nai.torua thalo.

Spring, and the flowers bloom; summer, warm sky; autumn, the birds go; winter, cold sky. The chapter's one metaphor is offered like a proverb: the year walks, with each season given its place.

SceneIV

nosa.misheko nulae. lohau mua ponu nulae. womu maeli nai.theula thimu.misheko nulae.

Two last journal entries. The first is dated now: the house at this exact moment, quiet. The second is dated theula thimu (all time; always) and contains one sentence, which you have been reading since chapter one and will be true after this book ends.