Summary

Deckle has given Clay a cloak to put on to blend in with the rest of the people in the Reading Room as chapter six begins. Corvina speaks to the group, revealing that Zaid’s, a member, codex vitae has been submitted and that he is now bound. Three copies are made: one for the library and two for safekeeping that will be put in other bookstores. Corvina tells the group that Penumbra will be burned for his transgression of the logbook being made available for the public to see. The readers all get to work and Deckle motions of Clay to go. He meets Kat, Neel, and Penumbra at Northbridge and tells them about Zaid’s ceremony, which Penumbra identifies as a binding. Kat uploads the scans from the Manutius. While they wait, Clay asks Penumbra if the Moffat in the...