Notes to Demon-Hunters:
· Never underestimate the zeal of a clergyman.
· Where there is poison, there should be antidote.
· Splitting up is a bad idea.
· Healers are a wonderful kind of people. Bring some.
· The mages go in back, except when the back is the front.
· Bone is harder than bread.
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I had forgotten about this book. I'm not sure what caused it, really -- whether I'd simply put it into the back of my mind, if I believed it stolen, or lost the memory in the fog of the far shores I spent so long upon. In the end, it does not matter; now I have it again.
I found it behind a loaf of bread, in the very back of my cupboard. I don't have any recollection of putting it there. It's strange. Probably got shoved back there by whoever decided looting the dead man's house was a good idea. The people in Wyndham were too superstitious to do something like that. I miss them.
But ye gods, the bread! It isn't a loaf so much as a slab. I have half a mind to hand it over to some alchemist. No doubt if he could find a way to make stone as hard, the city's walls would be impenetrable. It's quite a lovely shade of green, where it sits under the cupboard. It must have spent months sitting back there.
I always was absentminded when it came to things like eating. And sleeping, for that matter. Dana always said I wouldn't do either if I didn't have a servant putting out the food and turning down the sheets, and quite often she is proved only too right.
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