He put the packages in a room in his memory palace, and he carefully walled that room off from his consciousness. He twinned off a second self to remain in the room. The second self opened the first package. A third self stood ready with an axe. The phantasm was heartbreakingly beautiful. Thorn had been a great magus, of course. Harmodius allowed his second self to subsume himself in the complexities of the working. He shut down the room, withdrew his second self, and sat in another created room in his memory palace, a comfortable room with a circle of armchairs. His second self sat in
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