I opened the first page.
The strange symbols stared back at me.
They looked nothing like any language I’d ever seen.
There were circles, crescent-like markings, and elegant strokes that almost looked alive.
“Well… this is helpful,” I muttered sarcastically.
I flipped another page.
Then another.
Nothing.
Not a single word I could understand.
I frowned.
“What exactly am I supposed to learn from this?”
Just as I was about to close the book, something caught my attention.
There was a folded piece of parchment tucked neatly between two pages.
“I knew it.”
I pulled it out carefully.
Unlike the book, the writing on the parchment was in a language I could read.
My eyes scanned the first line.
If you are reading this, then you resisted the temptation to give up after seeing the fir
