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These do not appear to be serious scholars.

Smart people don't have to wear robes anymore.

Some of the sharpest kids in the city come here to study. I was only 15 when I

took my first course at Oxford.

I knew we'd get to you somehow.

I just think your campaign to bring me up to date in modern science is a little

bit silly.

I was considered quite the dimba -damba in astronomy circles.

As Galileo said, I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.

Yeah, well, we've learned a lot since your time. You may have shiny new facts

your disposal, but you will never know the thrill of living in an era of pure

scientific inquiry, the days of Maury and Dalton, when gifted amateurs lit the

way. But science isn't about nostalgia.

It's about looking forward.

There have been huge discoveries in the last 170 years.

This is why this is a good opportunity for you.

Rosalind Kirch is a genius.

Look over there.

That is where she developed her hypothesis.

On interstellar dust and active galactic nuclei.

Just sitting under a tree, watching the oil droplets in her teeth.

And? And then, boom!

Scientific inspiration.

A famous story!

And riveting, I'm sure.

She was at Stanford when I was doing my first Masters.

Her work on quasars was a real inspiration to me.

Quasars? Yeah, supercluster of stars discovered in the 1950s.

Dr. Kirch found a way to use them to predict celestial events, like black

It's all about predicting with you, isn't it?

These are your seats, 7 and 8, room 3.

Thank you. You're welcome.

You did that charmingly.

All I did was show you your teeth.

I think she fancies me.

Do you want to know another discovery in the last 170 years?

Who? Creepy staring?

Not sexy.

This must be recent.

Thank you all for being here to celebrate the restoration of the Kutuzov

telescope. Now the committee that raised the funds for all of this was led by

today's speaker.

So please welcome back to our campus one of the world's preeminent

astrophysicists, Dr. Rosalind Kirsch.

And thank you for the tour of the new observatory.

What a privilege to be back on campus as a visiting professor.

This is where I first developed my hypothesis on X -ray emission as a

of an accreting black hole system.

I remember it like it was yesterday.

I was sitting out on Observatory Hill and I...

How much time?

Where was I?

You were talking about the day that you formed your galactic nuclear hypothesis.

Oh.

You have to forgive me.

I don't think I'll be able to.

Dr. Kirsch is extremely jet -lagged.

Give us a moment, please.

She has one of the sharpest minds I've ever known. To see her have a

neurocognitive episode is just upsetting.

Yeah, we went through the same thing when my grandfather started off with him

beginning to shut the refrigerator. Before you knew it, he didn't even

us. You've got to appreciate being young.

Aging is no picnic.

This was not a product of age.

I believe that she was under a spell.

He's a librarian, therefore he thinks everything must be magic.

You know the saying, when all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a

nail. She froze, then shuddered. A telltale sign of memory theft. There are

powerful artifacts that could cause this.

Talon of Hydrolith. That is one, but that is already in the library. I

that one myself.

Oh, perhaps a tally stick.

We don't have to ascribe everything to the supernatural or being possessed by

demons. Dementia is a normal and sad part of aging.

Or a fantage could have pronounced an incantation over that porn. Is anyone

going to help me out here?

It's been so sluggish lately.

So according to Elaine's instructions, I gave it a tarnished bath and re

-aligned its mercury cup and ball weight.

Now why is it doing that?

The College of Science Observatory.

As I suspected.

Thanks a lot.

So, magic in the neighborhood, huh?

Let's not jump to conclusions.

This could be something else unrelated to Dr. Courage. Kind of a coincidence.

No, no. What I saw wasn't supernatural.

It was human and sad.

Some operation has occurred to this woman. Now, I've trained myself to be

observant, to remember details.

Well, I don't need to remember.

I got it right here.

I remember it like it was yesterday.

I was sitting on Observatory Hill, and I was...

Wait a minute.

Did you see that?

Use my AI -enhanced 3D program.

Very cool.

Don't.

Well, we need to talk to the victim and investigate what is happening at this

observatory.

That's it.

solution to the Bolkonsky Millennial Prize problem. I believe it is.

It came to me in a flash last night.

Uh, Lisa Pascal.

I was in your graduate seminar at Stanford.

Ah, yes, of course.

You did a thesis on applied predictive models based on galactic motion.

Yeah, uh, that was me.

Uh, we came to see your lecture yesterday, uh, but we were just a bit

when you had... Had my little brain cramp. Yeah.

Dr. Stenari said I was trying to tell a story of how I developed my quasar

hypothesis while drinking tea.

Apparently everybody knows that anecdote but me. I can't remember a thing about

it. But now this.

The solution to a problem proposed 25 years ago.

A solution that we all believed would still be decades in the future.

And yet.

That poor woman, some sort of infernal malediction has robbed her of that

important memory from her past. She can't be that badly affected. She was

to solve the Bukowski problem.

Not badly affected.

One of her most cherished memories, gone.

Not to be rude or anything, but maybe you're overvaluing memory a little. I

mean, imagine all that brain space could be used for, I don't know, achieving

something. Do you know what your problem is? The problem with this whole modern

world is you don't give a tinker's damn what's going on in here.

Or in here.

No, you've given it away to your little machines. No need to think, to know, to

remember anything.

No, you're hollowed out. A list of achievements, and even that's in here.

And soon, very soon, these little contraptions will be feeling for you.

No, I for one would not trade a single memory of mine for gold nor glory.

I sat down and I couldn't remember anything.

I couldn't even remember going to class.

What's your name again?

My lady.

We met last night.

Did we?

You showed me to my feet.

We had a moment.

I'm sorry, but I honestly don't remember you.

Forget me?

Impossible!

This can only be some sort of foul necromancy. This spell, this curse is

spreading.

And we have no time to lose.

We've tracked down the students we saw on Glastonbury.

A few more confusion cases popped up in the campus health clinic.

We also spoke to the usher. The ones who can remember have one thing in common

with Dr. Kirch. We've all been to the observatory lately.

Bullseye. We've identified the locus of this vile, pestilential phenomenon.

Now we must root out the noise of feculent, fetid, vile... You already

vile.

Yucky perpetrators.

He is on one.

Some founder is obviously abusing magic.

And just remember, our purpose is the identification and retrieval of any

potential artifacts.

Not beating up bad guys. It may not be our purpose, but it's the figgy pudding

of it. And my job is to get you out of that kind of thing.

I'm with Charlie. Let's get the layers out of my hand before we get

confrontational. And by confrontational, you mean... Silence.

I was not made for these kinds.

Hey, Vic, give me a sec.

Um, I just wanted to apologize for earlier if I upset you.

I was not upset.

I wasn't sensitive.

Look, I can't imagine what it must be like to be in your shoes.

I mean, you're here and memories are all that's left of your world, so I really

am sorry.

My world still exists in here.

So, there's no need to apologize, Anya.

Liza.

That's what I said.

The astronomy department office is chock -a -block with rare curios. Any one

could be our artifact.

You and Connor, reconnoiter what's in there. See if any of the magical

we're looking for are there.

And Charlie and I will try to root out the potential abusers.

Non -confrontationally. Of course.

May I help you?

We're just admiring the collection.

Do you work here?

I'm Dr. Stonaris' teaching assistant, as well as the astronomy department

archivist. Archivist?

Yeah. So you're responsible for finding and bringing in these pieces?

Who did you say you were again?

Dr. Stonaris.

Yes?

It is a pleasure to make your acquaintance.

I was at the presentation last evening.

Ah. You're an astronomy buff. Or a professional in the field. Well, let's

say I'm an accomplished amateur.

Have you heard of the Imperial Astronomical Society?

Yeah, from the early 19th century.

Didn't they disband back in the early Victorian era?

Yes. Well, we've relaunched it. Oh.

Well, so you're a gentleman stargazer of the old school.

Well, you appear to be of the old school yourself.

This star cartography is from the 1500s.

You have a fine eye.

It's for my pet project about Shakespeare's understanding of the

is not in the stars to hold our destiny.

But in ourselves.

But also a poet.

Poets and astronomers, we seek the same thing.

Larger view of the universe.

Well said.

I must say, I find your Shakespeare project fascinating.

Well, it grew out of my belief that the Big Bang not only created matter and

antimatter, but is also the source behind great art.

Big bang.

You have a way with a phrase, Professor.

Please, tell me more.

Well, it's really amazing, don't you think? In my astrolabe and the Adelaide

online community, we call them the smartphones of antiquity.

Looking after all of these important objects must be a real responsibility.

Keep the paperwork.

Well, yeah.

No, I already told you. I'm a friend of Dr. Kirch's. I'm just interested in the

collection. Well, it just seems like you were looking for something.

No.

I am wondering why you're sweating so much.

Sweating? Me? No. Hey, I just remembered.

We have to go meet Uncle Vic.

What? Now.

Oh, yeah.

Sorry. We gotta go. Bye.

See you soon, baby.

Yeah, you run. Run.

These are the Culpeper papers. The original? The Culpeper papers?

Nicola Culpeper was a 17th century artifact collector. As soon as I saw

they were, I thought they might tell us something. Of course, the crystal of Dr.

John Dee.

Culpeper was once its owner.

Slow down. Yeah. Who is Dr.

John Dee?

He was the court magician to Queen Elizabeth I. A genius.

A true Renaissance man. During the actual Renaissance.

And he used the crystal to communicate to the angels and divine the future. A

major magical artifact. I think it's in a London museum. So wait, what does this

have to do with our case? Ah, the legend is that Dee saw something that made him

lose his mind.

He no longer knew who he was.

Didn't recognize his family. Couldn't function. He lost his memory.

Whoa.

Why?

It's not just the Culpeper papers.

These are the writings of John Dee himself, dated 1588.

Culpeper says that they are always to accompany the crystal. It's basically an

instruction manual. Right, so they're fragile. We need to go and take them

somewhere and read them carefully.

There's just one problem.

It's written in Enochian.

You're losing me again.

It's a language Dee invented. He taught it from the angels. Yeah, and it's not

just basic Enochian. It's high Enochian. There are maybe three people on Earth

who know how to translate it.

Oh?

The crystal is rendered harmless at which hour it is contained in the

But once loose, it has the power to grant a single willed glimpse here. The

behest the single moment of the past.

21st century version, please.

The crystal is rendered harmless when it is contained in its necklace setting.

But once it is taken out, it has the power to grant a single desired glimpse

into the future. The cost being a single memory.

And then it refers to amplifying or expanding the power of the crystal.

The crystal is amplified to the point where the past is cleared. Hence, the

knowledge of the future is limitless.

The past is cleared.

Does it say how the crystal can be amplified?

It can emit spectral particulates.

The rest of the instructions appear to be missing.

I just checked with my old contacts in the illegal procurement world.

And the word is that the D -crystal was stolen, along with those papers from the

London Science Museum a few weeks back.

They've been keeping it under arrest because of all these superstitions.

Let us roll.

Right, no more namby -pamby. The papers are here, the crystal has got to be

here. I'm going to confront these gentlemen and force them to acknowledge

court. Whoa, whoa, we don't know that they're both in on it. You said your man

was acting suspicious.

Oh, yeah, he was sweating.

Not a scenario. This was as odd as a duck mole. At the very least, they know

something, and we are going to wring it out of them. We can't force them to do

anything. All right, we're not the police. But I'm the librarian, and they

abusing a very powerful magical artifact.

Now, we have tried your ever -so -fashionable non -confrontation belly

now we'll do things my way.

Once I put the screws to them, these fellows will be discouraged from any

further traffic of magical artifacts, not to mention robbery.

When you say put the screws to them, you don't really mean screws, do you? I

want information.

Well, violence is the last resort. Oh, we have tried the first resort. What,

first resort, last resort, second resort? We know it's them. We know they

the crystal somewhere.

We still don't know where they're getting out of this.

That is a nice car for a teaching assistant.

This vehicle.

Expensive? Very.

You two, find Oliver Nereth and bring him to the office.

These gentlemen are about to receive a proper buffeting.

Have we been peering into the future?

Maybe wagering a whist or a hazard deck.

Perhaps the trotters.

Are you with the police?

No, but you do have something that we're going to need back.

Hmm.

We are going to recover that Christmas tree!

Not in here either

Once you're gone home for the day.

Call Connor.

So it's the man who hates cell phones.

Hello, Connor. Yes.

Yes.

A new device.

How do you stop a motorized carriage?

like a king. Do something!

Brilliant work, Charlie.

What were you thinking?

Doing something stupid like that?

I don't know.

He seemed to forget how to pilot the carriage.

He must be under the spell.

Spell?

What about you?

Are you okay?

Charlie?

Who are you people?

You are my guardian, sent by the library.

How do you know about the library?

Because I'm the librarian.

Well, I'm a librarian.

Do you remember how you got the money?

I've just had a clairvoyant moment.

I saw a roulette wheel with two numbers.

So I went to the casino and put all my money on those numbers.

I'm not a guardian.

I didn't make the cut.

Initially, but then Jacob Stone contacted you.

It was like I could see the future.

It felt like cheating. I was afraid someone was going to come after me.

So that is why you were acting so sufficiently.

It seemed like you knew my secret.

How's it going?

She has a complete blank from right before Stone Cooled up until about an

ago. Hasn't met her.

Isn't sure how she got here. That's too much.

He only forgot how to drive.

Well, she was obviously exposed after him, so it's getting stronger.

What else did we learn?

Philip said that Stenaris traveled to London on the weekend of the 18th.

That's the weekend the crystal was stolen.

Can't be a coincidence.

So, Stenaris is the malefactor.

But where is the crystal?

He thinks he knows where it might be.

The vault in the building.

Downstairs. Let's go.

We're going to need you.

So you know about the library.

You could be an enemy.

You could be using magic to try and co -opt me. You know, Eve bared me a

that I wasn't ready.

And maybe I'm not.

But I am still loyal to the library.

Take him inside.

See about this vault. Come on.

The fact that the library even considered you as a possible guardian

must have better instincts than that. I am not an enemy of the library.

A powerful spell has taken a portion of your memory, and that portion includes

us. I cannot give you back your actual memories, but what I can do, I can tell

you what you need to know, so you can be part of our team again.

Uh, I'm not allowed in here without Dr. Stonaris.

This can only be opened with his retinol scan.

This is one I've never cried before.

How do you know so much about breaking and entering?

Well, there isn't an app on the internet for discovering magical secrets.

Which brings me up to the moment that you saved me from a runaway vehicle.

That all happened?

To me?

You don't think that you are Guardian material because you do not remember

you have done over the past five weeks.

But I do.

I'm the Librarian.

And you are my Guardian.

Even if on a trial basis.

Got it, sir.

Hey, guys.

Come on.

Here's another one.

From London.

Seems to be from the court of Elizabeth.

Do you think you held the necklace in crystal?

Guys, look at this.

The picture is changing to someone else.

Does this mean what I think it means? What do the translations say again about

the crystal being amplified?

Ah, um, the crystal is behest amplified.

To the point it's where the past is cleared hence.

And the knowledge of the future is limitless. The past is cleared hence.

Not memories, the actual past.

So Dr. Kirsch didn't just lose the memory of coming up with her hypothesis.

It never happened. Someone else did it.

You think actual events have been wiped out?

History's been changed?

Why would he want to do this?

Oh, he doesn't.

He wants the other part.

The limitless knowledge of the future.

Oh, he doesn't care about consequences.

He is what we call a remorseless monomania.

Sociopath. Well, how is he amplifying the crystal?

The question is, if his goal is to selfishly gain knowledge, then why would

involve other people?

Because he needs something from them in order to achieve his goal.

And memories.

Magical causality.

He must get his power to look into the future by consuming people's memories.

Correction by consuming the past.

And the more people that look through it, the more powerful it becomes.

When did Charlie look through the glass?

Ah, when me and Cenarius were verbally jousting, she looked through the

telescope.

Where else would you put a piece of glass people will look through?

It's just another lens.

Thank you for saving me the trouble of explaining all that.

Help!

You nurse out of here, you bounder! Sorry to keep you here like this, but I

20 undergraduates arriving for a stargazing session.

And once they've all looked at the Andromeda Galaxy...

The crystals should be fully amplified.

Daenerys, you have unleashed forces beyond your control.

Do you know what it's like for a man of my intellect to cast my pearls before

swiney undergraduates, while people like Rosalind Kirsch get famous on stories

of cups of tea and picnics? Now this is the story, the greatest discovery of the

history of science.

And my name will go down with Copernicus, Galileo, and Sagan.

Sagan? Think about the consequences of erasing history.

As a remorseless monomaniac, let me just tell you, I don't

care.

It's not going to work.

The door and frames kick hard and steal.

But if the crystal is already overcharged...

Then imagine what would happen once he sucked the memory of 20 more people.

Zombie apocalypse?

It's actually worse than that.

When you change the past, it takes time for those changes to catch up with you.

The past changed when Dr.

Kirch lost her memories, but it took time for the causality changes to catch

with our timeline.

Which is why the book and the painting are only changing now.

Exactly. I don't understand.

Imagine time like a lake, and we exist on its shore.

And the erased memory is like a pebble, dropped in the center.

It takes time for the ripples to reach us.

When Charlie's timeline catches up with us, she doesn't just forget.

But she never actually met us.

And if we never met her... Then no one saved you from Dracovac.

Which would mean that on our current timeline, we would all be... Dead.

Thank you for coming.

Next week, we get to view the Triffid Nebula.

Thank you, Dr. Panarin.

That was incredible.

Yes, but it can be overwhelming. Don't mind my...

It goes very well.

Right. Panic is the enemy.

Toujours l 'équilibre.

Toujours l 'équilibre. French isn't helping.

Pardon.

Who installed this vault?

A security company.

What kind of company? They specialize in banks, museums?

Um, museums, I think.

Yeah. Museum and art gallery systems usually have a fire override sensor to

allow firefighters to enter a burning vault without having the passports.

I don't know anything about that, sorry. It wouldn't be out in plain sight like

a smoke alarm.

We could use this lens and find a strong enough light source that perhaps a

focus beam could generate enough heat and then...

You're

not coming.

We could just use my lighter.

Oh, here.

Tiny portable tinderbolt.

Au revoir.

Can I help you?

Why are we here? You seem confused.

What just happened?

The tea paper has mentioned the crystal emitting spectral particulates.

They must be overflowing with them. I remember running up the stairs and

it. But you know who I am. Yeah.

They pulled you out just in time. When you were in it, you were rendered

completely impotent. But why does it infect Stenaris?

I do not know.

But we have to get that crystal away from him.

There is only one choice.

I must go in there and get it.

What? Just like that?

What makes you think you won't be rendered completely impotent?

Me. I don't think you know what it's like, Vikram. I feel like I have a ten

-second hole in my brain. And who knows what it'll be like if you stay in there.

Are you, of all people, willing to risk your memories?

My mental discipline is unlike any other.

Not that you're ordinary and not a gloat or bluster.

But I believe I am our best chance.

I don't like it.

And I'm responsible for you.

No.

I am responsible.

I'm the librarian.

And my memories mean no more than any of yours.

You three, go under the platform and see if you can level the floor. Anything to

get him away from that telescope.

Daenerys.

Were you able to?

I have trained my brain to silo thought away from my active mind.

I can lock away what I need and only give away useless memories to this

pestiferate hex.

What's the most important thing in the world to you?

Stay with me.

Don't forget something.

The main controls are up there.

Okay, well, this looks like a pretty standard servo motor.

Yeah, it shouldn't be too hard to hog. We should lower the floor to avert

Stenaris from looking through the telescope.

Guys?

What's happening to me?

She's disintegrating out of our timeline.

We've got to top of this now.

I could tell that you were different.

You seemed to have an esoteric knowledge almost from another time. I heard you

talking in the vault about translating high Enochian. Only a handful of people

know high Enochian.

Unfortunately, I'm one of them.

So I didn't leave any of the important papers lying around in the office for

to read.

They explain how to amplify the crystal and how the necklace could give its

wearer immunity from the unfortunate side effects.

You've just got to stay here, okay?

Okay,

just stay present. Okay, Charlie, stay present. Okay?

You've got to fight this. Fight it!

What am I doing up here?

Stay. You've got to promise me, okay? Just stay here. We need you. We need you

here, please.

So what was it?

A woman.

It's very interesting.

You're in tremendous pain, but you can't seem to remember why.

That is nothing compared to what I'm about to experience.

For millennia man has looked to the heavens to see the distant past.

And I will be the first man to peer into the heavens and to see the future.

I will know how the story of the universe ends.

And I will publish it.

Even more beautiful.

Help!

What are you doing?

I don't know!

I can't remember.

Get away from there, you maniac! You're ruining everything!

Somebody help me!

Catch!

Now I remember.

What have you done?

I'm not sure.

I know it sounds crazy.

I don't think I was asleep, but I must have been dreaming because all of a

sudden it seemed as if I were disappearing.

And then it all came back to me.

The moment on Observatory Hill when I developed my hypothesis.

It's hard to explain.

And I feel as if you and your friends had something to do with it.

I'm so grateful.

That was one of my most important memories.

I never knew how much I valued my past until it was gone.

I see that you erased the equation.

Is there anything to write it down somewhere?

I had to get rid of it.

I don't know where it came from. And there was something about it I just

trust.

Probably for the best.

Some mysteries need to be revealed in time, and we can appreciate the

implications. And scientific advancement should come through application of

scientific method. And this answer came to me like magic.

Well, I'm glad to hear that she's all right.

Oh, we were able to check up on the students who'd been affected.

It was mind -blowing, but they're no worse for wear. Most of them have

their future visions.

Though four of them have formed a jam band.

Charlie, how are you feeling?

All squared away, sir.

You never told us your vision of the future.

Was that also forgotten when the effects were reversed?

Yes.

Wiped out.

Completely.

Still impressed with how you were able to stave off the effects from the memory

bubble. I couldn't have done it. My mental discipline is highly attuned and

perfectly calibrated.

That, and I had no memories to lose for 178 years, save a few weeks.

I thought that might give me some advantage.

And you saw Khan struggling and you needed to help him?

Perhaps.

Well, whatever it was, you were willing to risk what matters most to save us. As

Descartes said, I think, therefore I am.

But maybe I remember, therefore I am.

Maybe that's the truth of it.

Anyway, I feel safer knowing that this is all locked away and out of the hands

of a pseudo -academic polymathic megalomaniac.

Speaking of which, what do you think will happen to Dr.

Solaris?

The reverse amplified view of the universe provides us with a final

Copernicus and Galileo?

They tell us nothing.

Stephen Hawking?

Hmm. Only I, Frederick Donaris, have viewed the future.

And I'd still be viewing it now if it wasn't for the interference of a crypto

-cult organisation called The Library and its fanatical, destructive operative

who calls itself The Library!

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