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  From the desk of DOCTOR Janus R. Anfini
  To the esteem'd CONDUIT OF KNOWLEDGE, Eleanor Junakutz-Lionheart
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  TASK
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To study the realm of Shadow!

  METHOD
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For this mission, I consigned myself to lone study in the frozen wastes
of the Tundras. On occasion, I would break, from two to six days,
recuperating from the cold and exhaustion in the domicile of Piper
Anfini.

  GOAL
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Once, long ago, I knew. I thought I would learn the physicality and
metaphysicality of the Shadowbound. Learn everything there was to know,
to the point that I could replicate certain processes and form
hypotheses from there.

There is naught to be known. It was a fool's errand - I may as well have
studied my navel. The only conclusion I can make of the world of Shadows
is that there is no sense to it. Shadow is entropy, void, not only in
terms of energy but of meaning. There is nothing to be known, nothing to
be known. NOTHING is the point! It is nothing, came from nothing,
returns to nothing. It cannot exist here because here is something, but
how did nothing get to something in the first place? It makes no sense,
no sense at all.

Now all I can see is violet and blue and black and grey, taste snow and
filthy sleet, feel my fingers falling off, willing them to grow, to
return, bone extending and veins crawling toward some common point. I
remember that bass throb, that lonely, sad space I made in the sky,
where I put nothing and watched it evaporate and shrink and condense.

This could not last. It could not be. A small part saved me, a small
part sequestered as a safeguard. It kept me save, dragged me back to
Piper's where I recuperated, before I flung myself into black.

  RESULTS
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Not a lot.

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