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The Warden Stayed
A page from the Sealed Choir's internal record of the Weeping Vault sealing — written by the last warden-binder before she went in, and copied into the Choir's teaching texts ever since.
The legion sealed the outside; I sealed the inside. There is a difference. The outside is stone and iron and the ward the engineers set into it. The inside is a body that keeps the vigil after the engineers have gone home, because a ward with no one standing it is a door shut once and nothing more, and once is not enough for what is behind this door. I am not afraid of this. I am afraid I will not keep it faithfully enough. The cuirass will outlast me; the Choir should know that whoever finds me will find the vigil still to be kept, and whoever keeps it keeps something of me too, because I have stood it three years now, my hand on the latch and my eyes open, and the door has been answered the only way a shut door can be. Give the vigil to someone who can keep a watch.
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- →The Verdigris Vigil — The Warden's text explains the Verdigris Vigil's origin — the warden who sang the binding-tone into the cuirass from inside the Vault.
- →The Sealed Choir — The text is a Sealed Choir teaching text — the warden's final record addressed to the Choir.
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- →The Weeping Vault — The warden's note was written before she went into the Weeping Vault and sealed herself inside.
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