It pretty much figures that they would be watching them too, if they were supposed to be behind everything else. Kind of makes it difficult to plan anything if the journals can't always be trusted. "We can't just use some other way of communicating so that they can't hear us?"

Teito smiled somewhat solemnly to either reply. "I somehow got this far without them. As long as only I think about the things I do have and not what I'm missing I can get through anything." After all it was because of all those hardships that he was appointed into the highest ranking imperial squad (or so he thought). That had to say for something, right? "They could come back someday, but if they never do, I'm always making new ones right now."