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Her stride was even, unhurried—the image of an art consultant operating purely on professionalism. Luca fell into step beside her, cutting the distance until it violated professional boundaries. Heavy tobacco and expensive perfume. A combination that failed to mask the tension simmering beneath his skin. “La Tempesta sul Mare di Galilea.” His voice carried the weight of a man accustomed to assigning prices to other people’s cultural heritage. “The only maritime landscape ever born from Rembrandt’s hand. Vanished from the world’s radar—except in this room.” Elena drew back the velvet.

"I hope you understand the level of trust we're bestowing." They were silent a beat before Brady cleared his throat. "May I?" He gestured to the book. She glanced at Fiona for approval, then nodded. Kaida met him at the stand. The book was leather-bound and had a trinity knot etched on the cover. It was at least six inches thick and the uneven papers were aged to a cream color. Carefully, she opened it and found a pentagram on the first page, along with the name "Galloway" written in quill ink.

The great, iron-bound cover of the Chronicles of the New Era did not sit beneath a glass display in the deepest vaults of the capital, nor was it sealed with a final, unyielding lock of administrative magic. Instead, the massive book rested open on a wide pedestal of unpolished sun-marble in the very center of the Grand Plaza of Genesis. Its pages were not made of paper, but of thick, shimmering sheets of woven light-lines that rippled and turned on their own whenever a new day broke across the unified worlds.

Books on the shelf in the order I'd put them, which was neither alphabetical nor by subject but by the sequence I'd needed them, which was the only organization system that had ever made sense to me. The second-phase paper. The governance paper with both names on the cover , Blackwood and Davis, the sentence we'd each written half of. Halloran's methodology guide, first edition, with my name written inside the cover in his handwriting on the day the third-phase confirmation came through. He'd said nothing when he gave it to me. He hadn't needed to. There was a photograph on the corner of the desk that Max had taken at the reception, slightly blurred because Max was not and had never claimed

I pushed it open without knocking. Finn was sitting at a large table by the window, bathed in the soft glow of a single lamp. He wasn't reviewing pack ledgers or sharpening weapons. He was surrounded by star charts, books with titles like Celestial Harmonies and The Lunar Tether, and a large, intricate orrery depicting the solar system. He looked up, surprised, as I entered. “Lana? To what do I owe the pleasure?” he asked, a slow, appreciative smile spreading across his face as he took in my undoubtedly distressed state. He quickly shuffled a few papers, covering something specific.

“You’ll enjoy it. Don’t worry, it is full of diagrams,” She blushes a deep scarlet. “Um, is it like the last book you lent me?” Taking another drink I shake my head. “Of course not. That book was practically for children. This one doesn’t just talk about basic positions, it also discusses more, enlightened arrangements and gives tips for delaying or enhancing…” “I don’t think I’ll need that then,” her eyes are quite wide as the crimson flush spreads from her cheeks to her perky little bosom. It’s adorable how easy she is to embarrass.

It’s more likely that a draught from the door or windows disturbed the pristine alter cloth. My gaze passes over the objects on the table, white candles, willow branches, bundles of herbs, trinkets and tchotchkes. My eyes settle upon an open book, the pages are loosely bound and the gilded illustration depicts a woman being lifted into the clouds by two sets of hands. In my awe of the tome I forget about the potential stowaway. I must have this book, the people are no more, so it will not be missed and I cannot fight the urge to reach out and pluck it from its resting place. It is cumbersome to hold, even with both hands and I have no idea how I will hide it from Halen.

After that he stood and left me in the room. Now barely an hour later he sends me a trunk full of books. Ella moved to stand behind me and I could hear her sharp intake of breath when her eyes landed on the books. "They're beautiful, right?" Ella only nodded her head and leaned down to touch the spines of one of the books. They weren't really books to be precise, well they were books but not really big ones, almost like journals, just bigger and fresher. The covers were embossed in a beautiful flower pattern, each color having a flower of its corresponding color on it.

The page that had been so secure now turned like it was bound only hours ago. With the book lying open, Katalea was so proud of her grandfather’s attention to detail in the library. The parchment lay exposed but no harm would come to it in this sterile environment. The words on the page seemed to be in English, but Katalea wondered if everyone was reading them in their native tongue. In a blue script that seemed to be the same color as the blue crystal, the words on the page were scrawled in a calligrapher’s hand.

Elara ------ The galley proofs arrived on a Thursday in October. Seeing the book in typeset form for the first time was a specific experience she had never found a clean word for. Not pride — pride was too simple. Not anxiety — though that was present too. Something more like vertigo. The words she had written in the library over eleven months arranged on pages that looked like a real book, formatted like a real book, because they were going to be a real book that real people would read.