The fragment reads:
“… tomes, manuscripts, pamphlets, scrolls, notes, and fragments in our world. Most are useless and trite, but some few rare texts survive from earlier ages. These special works can provide much guidance and understanding. The Bower Books, as you call them, are indeed such texts. As the story goes, one reveals the truth, one reveals the power, one reveals the way. I have not had the great misfortune of perusing these works nor do I hope to but there are those who exhaust great quantities of gold and blood in their pursuit and recovery. The rest of us can only hope those efforts continue to be frustrated and unsuccessful. And I might add, such books seldom reveal themselves. They possess great energy and each is said to be imbued with a will of its own. I pray your curiosity is sufficiently quenched. What is lost shall remain legend.”
With all truth and honor,
Amthalicus Groffer
General Practitioner,
Wizard in Residence at Hilsnth.