This was the kind of fruitless nonsense that permeated The Scar—a seeming irregularity of principle and purpose to things. A body could rub a book to ash in their fingers. They could then take a step and trip over a heaping stack of books showing no more than frayed edges, dust, and that grainy kind of yellow that takes over the page after a while.

 

Music in Tincture: Book 3, Chapter Two:

Cullah – Please Bring Me Shelter (CC BY-SA 4.0) Blue Dot Sessions – 4th Chair (CC BY-NC 4.0) Blue Dot Sessions – Emmit Sprak (CC BY-NC 4.0) Blue Dot Sessions – Midday (CC BY-NC 4.0) Blue Dot Sessions – Catcher Textile (CC BY-NC 4.0) Origamibiro – Flicker (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US) Genghis Attenborough – Clandon Chime (CC BY-NC 3.0) Blue Dot Sessions – Thread Caramb (CC BY-NC 4.0) Blue Dot Sessions – Cobweb Transit (CC BY-NC 4.0) Blue Dot Sessions – Thread Ceylon (CC BY-NC 4.0) Kai Engel – Prelude – Bells in Heavy Clouds (CC BY-NC 4.0) Blue Dot Sessions – An Accumulation (CC BY-NC 4.0)