13 Septembris, 354
Went into the sewers earlier to catch a rat. I couldn’t believe how ridiculously hard it was to catch a simple rat, but I’d only ever killed them. Seems that capturing one is a good deal harder than just killing one. I finally got one after I’d killed three or four by accident. The thing kept trying to take nips at my fingers, but I managed to put my cloak around the cage and keep it from doing that. Good thing, too, because who knows what kind of diseases that thing is carrying.
Later on, there was a shadow just outside the church square. I was near panic and wanted to get to the nearest guard station to fetch somebody, but it was just a shadow after all. Still a sign of some devilry afoot, I’d wager, but not immediately harmful. Still, I took a whack at it and then wrote to the proper authorities.