Vows of Graphite and Guilt
EL
For three weeks, she had been meticulously restoring the 18th-century blueprinted maps of the estate, peeling back layers of poorly executed Victorian restorations to find the original layouts.
But the blueprint currently resting under her specialized UV lamp wasn't from the 18th century. It wasn't even paper.
It was a modern sheet of reinforced, high-density polymer, completely invisible to the naked eye under normal lighting conditions. Under the ultraviolet spectrum, however, it glowed a violent, electric purple.