Then she deleted the last part. Some mysteries, she decided, were better left as whispers in a catalog. Let the next curator find out for themselves.
"You know."
"When the last child finally forgot the old gods, the gods did not die. They simply moved into the spaces between electrical pulses in the human brain." avs-museum 100374
It sat on a plain pine shelf behind a panel of glass that wasn't locked. Elara noted that with irritation—her assistant, Julian, was always forgetting the security protocols. The object itself was unassuming: a small, leather-bound journal, no larger than her palm. The leather was cracked, the color of dried blood, and a single word was embossed on the cover: Finis . Then she deleted the last part