Date unknown. Location sealed.
They always ask the wrong questions.
"Who killed Crane?"
"Why was the book stolen?"
"What's hidden in the Codex?"
The questions mean nothing.
The better question is:
Why did the Cipher choose Voss? And who's the one who hired Voss and why ?.
Who's or what is inside crane body ?.
I've watched him. From a distance. In silence. Through fog and blood and smoke.
His soul hums like something fractured… but familiar.
He's been here before. Not in body—
In pattern.
The Cipher doesn't select men by chance. It selects by wound.
By loss.
By what they've already buried.
He bleeds easy. But not just from the side.
He bleeds memory.
He bleeds grief.
He bleeds truth.
Victor Crane was only the match.
The fire started years ago.
And Elias Voss is the only one dumb—or broken—enough to walk straight into it.
Let's hope he burns well.