
The clause is on the ninth folio and the hide has worn through in the middle of it, and the ink has gone with the hide.
Mione reads the readable half twice and gets a revocation, a name and the word standing, which is not enough to take to a hearing.
MioneIt is not damage. It is wear. Somebody has been rubbing this exact page with their thumb for two hundred years.
She puts the book down and the cover is warm, and she has been in the room an hour and has not noticed until now.