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Milk's Entries

Milk's Lost Recipe Book

Milk's old book of ink recipes, written in a fading ink and now irretrievably lost.

Story so far

Milk tells Carl that she once had a book in which she wrote down several of her recipes. Later she switched to a different type of ink — in an attempt to share her knowledge with a wider group — and it wasn't until recently that she learned everything she had written had faded away.

Some of her best recipes are gone, and she blames herself for not writing them properly, discovering the loss only when she needed them most. Rosetta grunts indignantly at the self-blame. The confession is what motivates her gift of Stayfast Ink and an Adept's Fountain Pen, and her proverb that no single recipe is a feast in itself.

Appearance

A book whose written contents have faded away to nothing.

Role

The cautionary example behind Milk's gift of permanent ink.

Relationships

Milk — Author; lost her best recipes with it.
Stayfast Ink — The permanent ink she gives Carl so he avoids her mistake.
Rosetta — Objects wordlessly to Milk's self-blame.
Sources — 2 recorded facts, by chapter
Chapter 56
  • The crawler Milk's contributions to the forbidden cookbook, supposedly holding the toraline yam's rules — but not.
Chapter 87
  • Milk's old book of ink recipes, written in a fading ink and now irretrievably lost.
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