Chapter 10: Perenthia's Lost Papers

The discovery was announced at a volume that disturbed three nesting birds from the canopy above us and caused Caelen to reach for his sword before he had fully determined whether the threat was external.

It was not external.

"My folio," said Perenthia, at a pitch that suggested the folio in question had contained the last copy of a text previously believed lost to civilisation's second great burning. "Someone has been through my folio."