THE HEIRESS THEY BURRIED
"It isn't treasure. Whatever anyone has told you, whatever Edmund believes, whatever his superiors are chasing, it was never gold, never currency, never anything that could simply be spent."
"It isn't a weapon either. Jonathan built nothing here designed to hurt anyone directly."
"What it is," Isabella had written, and here the ink pressed slightly harder into the page, as though she'd paused before committing to the sentence, "is a record. A complete one. Of something so powerful that the Founders agreed, unanimously, that no single government, family, or corporation should ever be trusted to hold it alone."
She stopped there.
The sentence simply ended, the next line beginning a new thought