The Mate They Threw Away
It was the kind of pulse that goes directly past your skin and settles somewhere deeper.
“I have not reached any conclusions yet,” Marcus said, standing near the altar with his hands clasped behind his back. “But I am certain of this: whatever this book is, it must be kept away from public knowledge. If it falls into the wrong hands, the wrong understanding, the consequences would be catastrophic.”
“What does it do?” I asked.
Marcus looked at me with the expression of a man who has been worrying about this question for longer than tonight. “This,” he said carefully, “is a Book of Untold Story. And it is not from this dimension.”