the written word.

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FORM: Book.
SENDER: Petrana de Cedoux.
RECIPIENT: Everyone in range.

If you speak or write a language besides common trade fluently, I would like to speak with you. Preference shall be for both spoken fluency and literacy, but this is not required; one or other is acceptable. There are no limits upon languages in which I am interested.

MME DE CEDOUX
chief cryptographer

Comments

[katabasis]

[From behind the desk, he makes some small 'hm' of acknowledgement. It's the sort of sound a man makes when his attention is divided elsewhere, fitting with his review of the papers before him.

Then suddenly, he is on his feet and passing without explanation into the apartment adjacent to the office. The door is left open, affording some narrow bar of the room which exists beyond it: a chair with some sturdy quilt thrown over it, the edge of a dark rug. There is a thump, the sound of things being shifted, and when Flint reappears he is in possession of a thick stack of letters.]

These were recovered from the private collection of a Venatori agent. My best guess is that the key is some reference text - they're certainly no code I'm familiar with -, but if you believe they might be useful to you, then you're welcome to them.