Dream Fragment VIII

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This page was already on the desk. But I do not remember placing it there.
And it was still warm. The page was blank when I placed it on the desk.

I turned away.

Just a breath — a candle relit.

When I turned back… it was written.

Not with a pen.

With ink.
Rising.

It climbed from the lower edge upward, against gravity, against expectation, against me.

I watched the curve of each letter form in reverse —
as if the paper remembered the sentence before I asked it the question.

I did not write it.
But it knew my name.

And it ended in a whisper I don’t remember hearing.

But I haven't spoken aloud since.

(Whispered from the mirrored study. Fragment VIII.)  

Dream Lore VIII: Recovered Entry

I saw a shelf where no candles burned.

No dust gathered, no spines aged.

But beneath it, bones. Small, delicate — birdlike.

Arranged in a perfect spiral, as though they’d flown there and died waiting.

When I placed my hand on the wood,

I heard a voice that wasn’t mine say,

“It’s not your turn to open it.”

~This page was found long before the fragments began to file themselves…But now we know. The bones formed the same shape as the path. Compare this early record with Dream Fragment VIII when it is found. Though they will come to you out of order, be alert for hidden connections. The dust may remember what the dreamers do not.

-Filed by the First Lorekeeper