- Documents and items found at the observatory.
- “The new apparatus (praise the hands that shaped the eternite!) shows it clearly now. The lenses behave properly at last—even if the hum is louder every night, even if the glyph on the third ring must be tightened before it vibrates itself loose AGAIN—and the threads between the moons and the Vortex shimmer like a web plucked by an unseen claw.”
- A margin note, nearly illegible: “Yes yes yes the eternite holds the frequency, even HIS bloodline couldn’t deny it.”
- Box of glass lenses of varying sizes marked with a lebel "Made By Thane and Sons."
- “My earliest hypothesis insisted the crucial moment occurred when the moons were opposed, glaring at each other across the firmament like sulking children. But now I am not so sure. The inscriptions on the Ateak’s inner frame—those etched in that unpleasant metallic glass—shift faintly whenever the blue light of Melancholia lies atop the golden light of Eternity. A CHANCE alignment, surely. But the hum in the apparatus deepens precisely then. Coincidence? No. Or yes?
- My earliest hypothesis insisted the crucial moment occurred when the moons were opposed, glaring at each other across the firmament like sulking children. But now I am not so sure.
- When the moons stand full, and the blue crosses the gold without swallowing it, the threads between worlds tremble. The Ateak quivers like a harpstring plucked by unseen hands. The Cosmoscope answers whether invited or not.
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