The silence was something Flat immediately picked up on, as he spoke as he leafed through the digitized pages. The name of the thing sounded familiar, but he couldn’t place it. “I’ve started a translation but there’s a few problems with letter clarity, so I want to look while I’m thinking about it!”įor a moment, Caules was silent. “Oh! I need to check a page of the Voynich manuscript!” Flat said, moving from a Google search to Yale’s website. “What are you looking up?” Caules’ eyes remained fixed on the screen, if only because he didn’t trust Flat with his computer. “Thanks!” Flat said brightly, opening up a new tab in Caules’ browser and typing something furiously. He just raised both of his hands so Flat could scoot the whole thing over. “I have to check something.”Ĭaules didn’t even attempt to prevent the laptop hijacking. “Hey, Caules, can you double check something for me on your computer real fast?!” Flat appeared suddenly next to Caules, practically leaning over him to grab at the laptop. Somehow, every student had latched onto the idea, and at 2:00 on the dot, everyone had filed in and taken over every available space.įor Caules, that really just meant bringing his laptop and working around other people rather than asking El-Melloi II a million questions or coming in and out of the departmental breakroom with mug after mug after mug of tea. It had started a week ago, when Flat had declared that El-Melloi II’s open office hours should just be an informal study hall for everyone enrolled in the professor’s classroom. All for the better, as the silence let Caules reflect on how it was he had even gotten dragged into this mess. (A coda attached made it clear that if this was going to happen, Caules was responsible for Flat’s well being.)įlat didn’t hear Caules’ sigh. Also as expected were the contents - a lecture sent over text, chiding Flat for fucking off to America without telling him, and yelling at Caules for being dragged along for the insanity. The texts were from Lord El-Melloi II, as he expected. Another ping grabbed his attention, and Caules finally withdrew the mobile phone from the pocket of his grey trousers. If anything, that made the dread in his heart grow. That did not fill Caules with any sense of security. “Don’t worry!” Flat replied, bright and content.
Especially since the whole thing’s online!” “Are you sure that they’ve actually granted you access? I checked the library’s catalog and it said they don’t let people see the book. The building rose out of a sunken plaza, its exterior completely unassuming. Against the gray skies it was impossible to pick out any other details, but then again, it probably wouldn’t matter.
“It’s right ahead, see?”įlat pointed towards an imposing building, with a strange grid pattern on the outside.
“We’re almost there!” Flat said brightly.
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If anything, it made him feel worse and that guilt only intensified as his cellular phone went ping, ping, ping, indicating he had just received a series of text messages. That he knew how it happened did not, in fact, make him feel better. Caules Forvedge knew exactly how it was that he came to be walking along a street in America one blustery October day, trailing behind the singularity that was Flat Escardos.
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