Do you recall what I said about there being a problem with the Alkahest? That it was not containable? And that I had solved that problem in the Scroll, and that solution was one of its principal selling points, as it were, in the marketplace of bullshit that is academic certainty? Well, here’s the reckoning. We have reached that point, and now I have to embarrass myself, and thankfully there’s just me to witness it, and my subsequent inevitable failure. Me and the goddess, of course. And the cardinals.