Chapter 8: What Edmund Wrote, Underlined Three Times

The morning after the welcoming dinner, Percy found Edmund's journal lying open on the study table.

He didn't mean to look. He was bringing coffee — instant, because Edmund had mentioned it twice and Percy had made the connection — and he glanced down the way you glance at a page of music you can't read, just verifying the texture of it, and there it was. One sentence, running exactly the length of a man's careful breath, underlined three times. The underlining was not emphatic. It was the underlining of someone who had identified a structural element that needed to hold weight.

Percy looked away before he'd fully processed it.