Zane found it on a Wednesday, ten weeks into the blue book's translation, which meant he'd decoded enough of the invented script to begin reading the other volumes in the order Asha had recommended.
The third book was titled, in her script, with a phrase that took him three attempts to translate correctly, because the characters involved concepts that didn't map cleanly to existing language.
The closest he could get was: *What I saw in the people who sealed me.*
He read it in one sitting, which was unusual for Zane, who was methodical and paced his work carefully. He read it in one sitting because once he'd started he couldn't stop, and once he'd finished he sat very still for a long time before he called anyone.
He called Sera first.
"I need you and Darius in the archive," he said. "
