They texted individual lines to every person whose phone number they could get their hands on. “What?”
“If you want me you’ll have to give up something. XXX Tube What did it all mean? It had been months now and there was no telling how many in the department had read it. Men like Professor Chambers have chronicled all of the scraps that remain and produced a catalog of names and phrases related to it: a city called Carcosa, a woman named Camilla and another named Cassilda, and some strange, opaque phrases like “The Phantom of Truth” and “The Pallid Mask” which no one really understood. She whispered to me as my tongue flicked over them, and although her voice was still vacant there was a restrained undertone of affection under her iciness.
