====== Zoey Dartford - A Final Sacrifice ======

"Incident Report 109UG45R: Eyewitness (K. Roger) reports that suspect walked up to Zoey Dartford, who seemed to be waiting for him, because she received him with a handsake. Both appeared to be in a state of some distress, and K reports Dartford previously looked at him in a way that 'really shook [him] up, you know, like she wanted to //eat// [him] or something. Felt like food.'. They shook hands, whereupon the suspect retrieved a knife from his jacket and stabbed Dartford. The victim's body was not found, although traces of paper and what was found by forensics to be a thick black ink rather than blood were located at the scene.

The suspect was later apprehended, having turned himself in. Officers were unable to question him, as he dissolved into the same paper and ink within the next few minutes."

- Capital City Police Case Reports, January 2076

"The much-anticipated final book of local writer Mark Page was released posthumously this week. The novel, miraculously discovered in a bank vault just last month, was rushed into publication and immediately seems to be climbing the bestseller charts - inexplicably so, according to some booksellers, who report that the latter half of each book is identically scorched and blackened. Look out for our review on Page Seventeen!"

- Capital City Chronicle, 29/02/2076

"Book Review: //Behind the Curtain// by Mark Page. 

In //Behind the Curtain//, Page has finally grown as a writer - it's just a shame it came several years after his demise. BtC is an interesting work, which is more than can be said for his previous oeuvre. Initially, it may begin as his typical novel: a YA dystopia, disguised as utopia. A secret beneath the surface. An idealistic protagonist who nonetheless cannot stop prodding the boundaries of her knowledge - against all better judgement. Then things change. Friends are revealed as conspirators; betrayal occurs. And our protagonist realises, dragged back time and time again from the brink of death, that her only choice is to fight the structure of the narrative itself - and in the process destroy herself. It's a gripping, rivetingly meta read, and the bold addition of the identical scorching of the last chapter definitely adds something."

- Capital City Chronicle Review, 29/02/2076

"Diary, today I became utterly convinced that my book was alive. I do not recall how I first became enamoured of this idea, but tonight it spoke to me for the first time. It was not entirely like speech, more - words in my head whose origins were not in my own thoughts. It called itself a Muse. It told me that I would not live to see my book's completion. It offered me a deal.

Diary, I am minded to accept."

- Excerpt from the Diaries of Sara K Russell, Author