Chapter 17. Mark Education

Amelie

I get up to my room and sit on the bed. I just stare at the box for a while. I work up the nerve to open it. I find the key attached to the ribbon bookmarker connected to the book’s spine. I turn the key and open the box. There it is, the tools of the horrible ritual I would have to perform. There is a small wooden bowl; It’s already stained red for years of countless others who felt the same as me. This was the only way out. There are two small daggers. One is steel, and the other is silver.

“We need to see what the book says.” Inari does not even want to look at the knife.

I am curious about this book my father gave to me. It’s old with a leather cover and binding. I open the front cover and see the title page; it’s handwritten, The Complete Research on Marks by Raphael Bois de Frene year 1795.

“That name sounds familiar like I should know it.” I stared at the name, puzzled. It was so familiar, but I could not put my finger on it.