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=== Books ===
'''29.2.1922:''' The pleadings of a disgraced Suppression Bureau official to the Hour called the Geode, as transcribed by one of its knowledge-keepers.
''Before reading:'' The official pleads to the Geode and promises to reveal the innermost secrets of the Suppression Bureau if the Hour lets him out of the cell where he is being held. After he recites a mystery of Knock from memory, a glowing fissure opens in the cell and the official enters.
''After reading:'' The official crawls blindly through narrow tunnels filled with sharp crystals, revealing secret after secret. As the crystals tear marks into his skin, he curses the Geode and speaks of a "secret of secrets" that he refuses to reveal. Shortly thereafter, he finds himself back in his cell, still covered with wounds.
Yields: '''6 {{Aspect|Knock}}, Dread, A Favor from Authority''' '''A Manual for the Assembly and Disassembly of the Body:''' In Latin. The physician Henrik Lejonberg writes of a secret method for taking apart and reassembling the human body without the use of tools, learned by observing his enigmatic mentor. ''Before reading:'' Lejonberg writes of the method's uses in removing plague-nodes and parasites from the body, occasionally including various aphorisms his mentor uttered during surgery. ''After reading:'' Towards the end of the book, Lejonberg recounts a heavily wounded patient in a mask resembling a cracked geode asking for his mentor, who is nowhere to be found. Lejonberg attempts to utilize his mentor's techniques to mend the patient's wounds, but fails. The book ends with a transcript of the patient's last words, in which they beckon the mentor to return to the service of the hour called the Myriad-Masked. Yields: ''6 {{Aspect|Knock}} 6 {{Aspect|Heart}}
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