He read the Thornwood document in one sitting.
Thirty-one pages. He finished it in two hours at the small table in his room with the morning light coming through the window and the city running its ordinary noise outside. When he was done he went back to three sections and read them again.
The document did not read like Guild records. The language was older and more personal—written by people who were recording events they had witnessed rather than classifying events they had analysed. The house seal was on the cover but the individual entries had different hands, different styles, different levels of confidence about what they were describing. Three people across 180 years writing about the same phenomenon and arriving at similar conclusions through different evidence.
