Joyce Ashebee

How foolish I've been! The cards foretold the coming of the next Lord almost a year ago, but I had not even noticed this child until now. I must separate her from her parents for at least a few minutes and perform the necessary rituals: the Rite of Juniper, and Embodiment of Nephthys.

Thankfully, she currently resides near one of my usual haunts on Spruce Street. Perhaps the energies coalescing there are responsible; if so, that means my efforts at concentrating them are not in vain.

This is the child that will keep the knowledge alive for the next hundred years, and without access to this knowledge in the next cycle there is no way my plans will succeed. Still, I hold out hope that I will only need one more rotation before this time.

-- The diary of Olympiodorus the Third, sometime between August and November of 1942.