After finishing the book, Leo didn't move for a while, as his eyes remained fixed on the final page of the memoir.
The captain's handwriting here was noticeably different, no longer looking clean or composed, but rather erratic and uneven, as each stroke reflected the lingering damage to a mind that had never fully recovered, even after three years had passed.
However, Leo did not let such petty things affect him, as his mind filtered past the hysteria, the horror, and the dramatic warnings and searched for only things that mattered.
The key takeaway for him wasn't the madness, the deaths, or the creeping paranoia described in the memoir, but rather the fact that the Captain had returned alive and successful from his mission.
Even if broken, even if shaken, Captain Aelric Vonn had completed a thirty-day expedition inside the time-stilled world and had made it back with the target's head in hand, proving that survival, though rare, was not impossible.
