text; pockets full of stones

[nascensibility]

[She very much debates sending this. It isn't her style, not after the losses she's endured, not after the way this place takes, and takes, and takes, so much that it becomes commonplace, that she should find herself numb to it. Evelyn doesn't particularly anticipate replies; people go missing every day.

Her son's room is entirely empty. Evelyn knows what it means.]

If anyone sees a tow-headed boy, eight years old, please contact me.

His name is Alex.

E. O'Connell

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voice; private;

[nascensibility]

I died, you...you know that.

[She sits on the information for a moment, trying to think of a better way to phrase what she wants to tell him, before deciding that plain speech is best.]

He brought me back. He read- he read from the same book I read from, when I brought Imhotep back. You remember.

voice; private;

[ofletters]

I remember.

[ She died, she came back. Truthfully, Sam isn't sure he had known that Evie had been revived successfully... but, it does loosen a knot from somewhere in his chest. ]

... What happened to him after he read from the book?