A book lies open on the table. Logos adjusts his magnifying glass, trying to use his bone pen to write witchcraft onto the characters on the page. Every incantation he marks down will be magnified and projected onto a curtain by machines, then deciphered by Pith, who writes down its meaning and implications. These then pass on to a group of casters in the hall, who will try them out and discuss their effects. This started off as a hobbyist class for Rhodes Island's casters, but at some point, it changed into a research group supporting Logos with his experiments. He was currently performing a pointless task: designing incantations for a book currently only available on Rhodes Island—the <i>Semantics Paradigm Encyclopedia</i>, incantations that will ensure the correct meanings of the book's contents will appear directly in the minds of a reader. As languages are in a state of constant flux, he must pay close attention to how people from across as many different nations, races, and classes as possible comprehend the same words, constantly noting the differences between the original meanings of the incantations and how others interpret them. After an unending series of adjustments and revisions, the incantation is finally put to paper. Thus this collection of casters in the hobbyist class, be they Ursus, Victorian, Sarkaz, Feline, hide-bound academic or free-flowing liberal, must first take a photocopy of the encyclopedia, read the enchanted contents, then cast the Arts according to their understanding of the text. Through this process, Logos can capture the most minute differences between the understandings, and perfect the incantations even further. Thanks to Pith's ability to unerringly duplicate and understand Originium Arts, Logos can rest assured that all transcription, correction, and instruction work can be left to his esteemed comrade-in-arms, allowing him to focus on the effects of the incantations within the tome. Based on the most recent test results, nearly all experiment participants who read the Encyclopedia passage on applied incantations were able to accurately repeat that passage's contents and cast the Arts described. The participating casters were over the moons with joy, but Logos did not share in their happiness. There was still doubt in his mind about whether he had managed to truly achieve his goal: lossless transmission of meaning to everyone. The potential held by this little side project of his far exceeded his original intent of modernizing Sarkaz witchcraft. It has instead become some sort of attempt at creating an entirely new language. By writing with this infused script, the meaning you wish to pass on will not be easily misinterpreted. If everyone were to write like this, why, information transmission could ideally be near lossless. Anyone reading a text a thousand years in the future would derive the exact same meaning from it as a reader today. But when this project is complete, will it be able to destroy all barriers to using Arts, or will it serve as the catalyst of total annihilation? Or perhaps, even after all this effort, will he be forced to close the book and let it become some forgotten tome in the library? ...... The operators who took part in the experiment came and went, and now, he is the only one left in the room. As he lifts his pen to write more, he notices cracks in the bone from long hours of scribing. As a King of the Royal Court and a Sarkaz, he compiles Kazdel's very first 'great work', patiently awaiting the day there will be great need of it. But as a member of Rhodes Island and a child of Terra, he imagines a time when the barriers between all living things are broken, a time when they grasp fate in their own hands. It is for this reason he researches and experiments, even if such a dream cannot be realized in the present. Aefanyl takes a new pen, and begins to study once more. The dream yet lives in his heart, and in the slender shaft of his pen.