Together We Will Make Soup

Several moments has passed since he called.

K: Again, O Edjeneill I wish to speak with thou!

Again he waits.

A: I believe he will not answer to anyone, O priest.

K: What is his reason for seclusion?

A: I believe he has become obsessed with the pursuit of knowledge. As have many who learns under my word, that is the word of Cognonomy; he seeks the singular truth of will. It is something I searched for when I was young for many years and did not find. But the prestige of a unifying theory is all too great a tempter for us scholars. He has borrowed many books that are by now meant to have been returned to our library, I could consider this theft and banish him from the Radjit Academy but I know his plight well and wish to extend grace to him.

K: It is noble a desire, O friend, but if thy student has become mad with obsession it may be wrong to offer leniency and expect solution. The rot smell indicates there is something dead in that room. Depending on what it may be he may receive imprisonment or a worse punishment.

A: It may be food or vermin that rots.

K: Thy knowledge is that of learnedness, O wise scholar. My knowledge comes up from within me. There is danger that lies behind this door. There are worms eating flesh, and mould sprouting from something that should have died but did not. Has there been any food passed through the door recently?

A: None to my knowledge.

K: Then how could it be he still lives despite weeks passing since the door has last opened?

A: But he is not dead, that we know.

K: And that is it. He should be dead and yet he lives. I will summon the guards immediately and open this door.

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This note was found beside the door to Edjeneill's room, but he was not found within. The only window in the room was open, the curtain torn down from it.