Editing Vek's Journal on Randal (section)

=='''Kindof'''==

I'm speaking into the journal book I picked up in a shadow called C23.  Its part of a shadow system based on a road that travels back and forward in time.  Sadly only the time of the realms its spreads through, yet the road travelers can go back and change things in a side road and suddenly a nearby shadow where those events occurred is included in the Roadway shadows.  Its like a growing root system where the leaves are travelers.   

Still, in Century 23 of the Road shadows is a brilliantly efficient technological epoch.  They take paper books, reinforce the pages to be indestructible to nearly anything except dragon fire.  They install a thin computer in the cover of the book.  Its as powerfully useful computer that come stocked with an AI personality.  

The book I used was the great “Kind of Blue-Our Tour.”  Few books in shadow compare to the stories, the music, and the legends of the 10 year tour of the Miles Davis, Bill Evens and John Coltrane sextet. The stories, the journals, the travel itineraries, and the sheet music for all five studio albums including the first “Kind of Blue”, a couple dozen solo albums and works from sextet members, and twelve concert albums including the infamous March 1961 “Havana Nights” album.  That's the one that includes the gunfight and assassination of Fidel Castro by Lansky hit men as background music while Bill Even ran the keys before everyone realized what was happening. The cover picture of Castro dead on the piano with Bill Evens smoking a cig at the keys in the moment he looks up as the dead dictator lands and slams the lid down is a classic.  Won the Pulitzer Prize.   The book calls its self “Kindof” even though I usually call it Blue.