Chapter 102: 6.6 – Between the Lines

Robin ran his fingers over the parchment of the scroll. It was old, yellowed, and almost brittle to the touch. A small bit flaked off beneath his fingertip. Robin discreetly willed it into his storage space. It’d come in handy later.

He’d determined that he needed a few things if he was going to pull this off. Materials for the physical aspect of the forgery. Ruprecht would be very helpful there. Several versions of the text in question. Vance had helpfully shown him how to find a few in the library. Thankfully not every copy was kept under the lock and key of the Head Librarian’s watchful eye. All told, he had access to most of what he needed to create the thing.

Selling the idea of the copy, that would be harder, but fortunately he had a skill set primed to do just that, and some ideas to keep his fingers unnoticed in turning the rumour mill. What he was most nervous about, however, were the skills required to craft the forgery.

That was why he was sitting here in the library, staring absently off into mid-air. Other patrons might mistake it for introspection or uffish thought, but Robin was actually carefully picking his way through the the skill—proficiency—list options and comparing things to the amount of experience he currently had available.

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