Re: PRIMARY SOURCES: MID-TO-LATE 19TH CENTURY

[personal profile] libraryofbabel 2021-09-07 12:54 am (UTC)(link)
You open the hand-bound sheaf of papers. The writing is in slightly childish-looking script, and decorated with marginalia doodles illustrating parts of it.

Unlike the other books, it doesn't seem to be associated with a particular memory—but it does give you a sense of warmth and excitement.
scattershot: (✶ only the dead)

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[personal profile] scattershot 2021-09-07 12:57 am (UTC)(link)
[If I was in a place where everyone wanted to learn, too—

[Alisaie puts the papers down, her hand resting on the cover.

[Suddenly, she feels so homesick it hurts.]
scattershot: (✶ a light in the storm)

Re: PRIMARY SOURCES: MID-TO-LATE 19TH CENTURY

[personal profile] scattershot 2021-09-07 12:58 am (UTC)(link)
[She shakes it off, after a moment: she has to. It's not at all what she's here for.

[Let's try the next room. Late nineteenth century, wasn't it...?]