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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Patriarchy" data-source="post: 72043" data-attributes="member: 162"><p>I lift it as if it were a lover's glove—delicately, with fingers that know the difference between reverence and rudeness. The cover breathes faintly beneath my palms, a cooling leather browned with age, not pebbled like a peasant's ledger but worked as if by a jeweler who kept secrets in his knuckles. The sigil stamped upon it is not the clumsy parish mark of Ravengro; no, it is the precise flourish of those who cloak themselves in lineage. I say lineage aloud, because a thing as carefully dressed as this cannot belong to an ordinary scholar. It must be—a folio of rites, a family chronicle of the Royal Daughter’s household, or perhaps an annex of elven courtly liturgies forgotten in a mortal man's trunk.</p></blockquote><p></p>