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“Shit.” 

An entire army of drones, it seemed, had poured down the street; Edward had tried to escape through a side street, but it was a dead end. He was pinned down in an alley.

Time to head up. 

He leaped onto a roof, breath catching in his throat, and started to run. A familiar figure stood not too far away.

“An ancient Japanese katana, in the sheath. Drawing the sword from the sheath causes a single leaf to fall out. If examined, it can be identified as a leaf from plants native to Japan, and can be dated to around the year 1300. The leaf looks like it fell off the tree yesterday.”

A 20cm by 20cm chapbook of excellent cotton paper stitched at the spine with catgut. It's a personal journal kept by noted Russian artist Olga Vladimirovna Rozanova of the Supremus school of painters. She painted the text in water color, rather than write longhand. Her Cubist/Russian Futurist-like paintings of flattened dimensions illuminate the text. Of note, an entry from 13 October 1913: "Sleepless, four days: men of many pale colors and flat shapes stalk me along edges of buildings, rooms, anywhere with straight lines, corners. Sense them at edge of vision. If my skull were a clear glass, I could see them. Alexi and Velimir mock me, play at my fear with their cruel nonsense poems." Sharp anthromorphic masses emerging from pub scenes accompany this entry.

“How did you know I like Russian art?”