“Every scholiast knows the story. We are forbidden to discuss it outside the walls of our athenaea under penalty of the Inquisition. We are meant to preserve knowledge, not necessarily to proliferate it. Certainly not knowledge of the Mericanii. Or Felsenburgh. Every scholiast knows his story. It’s our story.” As he spoke, Gibson sank into a seat atop a low filing cabinet. Jabbing his cane up at the man in the image, he said, “He sold humanity’s soul.” I was shaking my head in protest. “How is it I don’t know any of this?” Gibson raised an eyebrow. “I told you, we are forbidden to discuss the
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