*• Theoretical Manual of Occultism — Chapter XIX*
*Spontaneous Wounds: first documented and recorded in 1540. No explanations available. Probable theories, formulated in the following decade, state that these burns resembling brands — a spontaneous laceration of the skin — followed by localized bruising in the affected area, would surface on a subject following unilateral physical contact with an object, person, relic, or graphic representation that connects them ancestrally to a previous life. Also known as: "The Remembrance Mark." •*
I hadn't looked into it at the time.
It had been a distracted read, stolen between one study chapter and the next during one of those long afternoons when your brain refuses to absorb any more material and your mind drifts toward the stranger pages of the
