فانی

EPHEMERA

A handwritten message from Obscurist Magnus Keria Morning delivered to her son, Scholar

Christopher Wolfe.Seeing you tonight has left me restless. You are so angry, Christopher.

So hurt. And I have tried my best to protect you, but you knew when you went against the

Archivist that you would lose. You are still alive.

Please cherish that gift, and stop trying to force change upon the Library. It is ancient,and set in its ways, and it stopped changing long ago. None of us can help that.

No matter what happens next, you must think of yourself, and Niccolo, and even those children I saw you with today. You are proud of them, I could see that.

The Artifex could see it, and now, he knows hecan use them against you, too.

We are not the same, but alchemy teaches us that blood is the strongest tie of all. I will not abandon you.

But neither can I save you again.

Give in. Give up.

Survive.