"So let me get this straight. " Chole said looking over the forged documents. One had been recently printed in London, and looked new, but Cytheria had gone back two centuries to London to have it forged with the Royal Society's official script. The other was much older or looked much older. She had it written in the 10th Century. It was basically an additional letter to be added to something called the " Loachim Chronicl...

[[ Karla left early for the library the next morning as she wants to get this done. First though she orders a bouquet of yellow flowers that will be left at the hotel desk along with a note to Skoal telling him when he should pick her up. The rest of the morning she’ll skip over many years and will only copy the very last chapter in Besh’s book that will be translated to this.]] Chapter 24. 1417. AD. Closing Memories. An...

[[Karla is back in the secure room of Szechenyi Library having again signed out The Annals of Besh. It would be nice if she could just photo copy the book, but rules are rules, so she goes about copying the pages she wants on her note pad, knowing the last section she wants from the book is going to have to wait till tomorrow because lunch lasted so long, but at least she has this before the library closes for the evening...

[[ The next dayproceeds much like the last. Karla is picked up at her room and taken to the Library and dropped off. She signs out the same book and then spends the morning copying it verbatim, then meets her escort for a long lunch where they do a fast translation.]] Chapter 4. Escape and News of Isfahan's Fall (1387 AD). It has been past a month since my last writing as the moon is again but a sliver, just as it was whe...

[[ Karla picks up her elder escort in the common area of the National Szechenyi Library in Budapest after having spent the day upstairs carousing a very old obscure book missing its beginning. She’s copied verbatim the first part of the book, and will return the next day for more. Tonight she’ll sit in her hotel room with her escort and he’ll help her translate the older Vulgar Latin that she’s not all that familiar with...

THE NEXT DUCHESS  All is as you thought it would be sir and more.The Duke is most formidable. He is powerful and feared.Respect he commands well through design. Vigilance is his strength.He’ll tolerate no slight towards his authority. His name he guards most jealously.An alliance of your house to his will prove most practical,The benefits I’m sure you’ll weigh.I’d dare sir if I may, Make some suggestion to this scheme.You...

A Night Tone She never comes where I am, I miss her if she does. In the darkness the clouds race. The moon makes for shadow. She never comes where I am, Would want her if I could. The winds cold, my hearts bare. And the night sets the tone. She never comes where I am, And I’ve searched most my life. She’s out there, she’s calling. I want to bring her home. She never comes where I am, Sitting alone, in the darkness, As col...

A Blue Rose A blue rose reclined forlornlyAmong the flagstones in my gardenFragile and sad, caught in the coldA gift from a shadowA mystery who speaks to meIf she found it or made it, she didn’t sayShe packed it most carefullyThen tossed it high to the etherOver old rounded mountainsDown to the sand hills belowWhere I caught it, I didKept it safe ever sinceIn my garden, among the flagstonesBut now I’ve moved it out hereLa...

Closure Report (Lost Device/Sloan) Sep 2017/Karla/Archives (Filched Ear & the Lost Whistle, Resolved) At the time of Pinny’s birth it was said her mother was visited by three women (1) . One old, one middle aged and the last young. They claimed to be sisters. If that was true that would be very weird considering the age differences. But that is what was said. What else was said of the visit was just that it was strange be...