Once in a while, people from...outside, just seem to appear over the journals. We have no control over who it will be but once it starts to happen, we have many denizens who post their messages, hoping they pierce the ether.

[He hazards a guess despite his physical discomfort]

I know you may wish to contact your family, or to have some assurance that they are safe, and I have no definite answers to give you. Your graduation could very well decide that, or it may have no bearing whatsoever -- and by that, I mean it is very likely that they are and shall remain perfectly safe no matter what you do. However, if you do not graduate then they will be perfectly safe without you.