Eliece asked this question about
The Dictionary of Lost Words:
What exactly had happened to Esme's hand? It seems to have been burned, but I couldn't find how that happened.
janice
it was burnt when she went to retrieve a pece of paper thrown into a fire by one of the men in the Scriptorium.
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