Translating the notes in the sketchbook wasn't easy, because the Finnish text had been written by hand, and sometimes the handwriting wasn't altogether tidy. It became ever more cramped and crammed into odd spaces as the writer had filled up the book. But slowly, with the help of his language book and a dictionary, Mr. Donnelly made progress. He translated the first few sentences, and after that he was so exhausted from his intellectual work he knew he would have to take a break and put down his mechanical pencil. It was quite enjoyable, really, to let his brain work on something new, but demanding.
He quietly read through his translation again.
"Elijah, where are you? I remember how we were watching the stars at night, next to the Nabta stones, and next morning when I woke up, you were gone. I tried to go back into the mists on my own, but I couldn't. It's as though you were never here. I know you would never leave me. So what has happened? Have they caught you? Have they... killed you? I don't know where to go. Nothing but desert everywhere and all I have left now is one bottle of water. I cannot wait for you any longer. I have to leave to survive."
"Interesting," Mr. Donnelly mumbled to himself, "Elijah left Merit in the middle of the desert? Whatever for?"
Suddenly the air seemed to turn electric. Familiar prickling lifted the hairs in his arms. Quickly he closed the notebook, attached the mechanical pencil to the rubber strap on the cover and put both the sketchbook and the Moleskin in the lowest drawer on his desk, under a pile of loose papers.
When the Masters stepped through the door, he was seemingly deep in his studies on angelology, scribbling notes with an old fashioned ink pen.
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