Meklondiche
FW: Fw: FW: Found Guage key 71 (Meklondiche)?
this gave me the goosebumps!!
I’m so unbearably sorry. I think I found it, but I need help. Please.
Two days ago, I left to search for it just a few miles north of the spires. I found it. I found the damned thing in a tidy spine of chryophite poking through the soot, peeking out like it wanted me to find it. In my excitement, I extracted it from the rock without a second thought. However, to my horror, I noticed that the protoellipses were disastrously unbalanced, albeit only after I had broken it free. I should have checked first, but the Codex never indicated that Meklondiche would have been one of the keys with an ontological cost. God, I wish I’d checked the protoellipses first. I’m so sorry.
Fearing for myself and for anything a few miles around me, I scrambled for my notes on the Codex, poring over them in the ash until there was no longer light to see, clutching the key as if my grip could keep it in this plane. Oddly, the key had not shown any signs of decreation. Feeling encouraged by this fact, I started to look for a place to sleep. Not a moment had my thoughts strayed when Meklondiche flickered and withered in my hand. I knew the cost immediately: attention. Meklondiche will remain only as long as you give it your thoughts. I can’t sleep until somebody else feeds it – I fear that my dreams won’t be enough. I’m terrified to think what it might take with it were it to disappear. Please, forward this e-mail to as many people as you can. The more people think about the key, the safer we’ll all be.
send this to no fewer than seven distinguished scholars in the next hour… we can’t afford to lose another!!
A CONCERNED MOTHER