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[Filter: Private]

I ... I can't get that writing out of my head.

It wasn't just the vocabulary that should have been unfamiliar ... the ... the syntax, the alphabet ... everything was ... so alien to any language I've ever known, but ...

But I still understood it all perfectly. Just ... just perfectly. I think ... I think I could even read it outloud, the way it was meant to be read. That's ... ah, that's ...

...

I remember things. I ... I do. Is that ... is that why ...

[Filter: Lauren]

Ah ... Lauren, I ...

You've seemed ... just completely lost in thought, today. Is everything all right? Are you not having a good Festival? I ... I know everything is complicated ... with Lady Ruseia, and ... ah, and all the rest of it, but ...

... I know you're getting ready for the party, but when you have a moment ... you know I'm here, don't you?

[there's a pause here, and then ...]

[Filter: Jace]

-- there's writing in this book!