Knowing about it meant it would know about you too?
Hmm. Just like Adam, then...
Luther thought this as he finished reading the letter.
Klein's point was that Luther shouldn't enter Saint Millon before they had confirmed Ince Zangwill's whereabouts. Otherwise, 0-08 might notice him, with all sorts of consequences.
But was that really true?
Luther looked down at the phantom sea beneath his feet.
In his experience, many sentient Beyonder Items had grown deeply afraid of the Tide's presence when faced with him. Arrodes the Magic Mirror had. So had the Dice of Fate, and Groselle's Travels...
And since 0-08 apparently came from the neighboring Spectator Pathway, it might fear this sea even more.
But something still didn't add up. Hadn't 0-08 manipulated events around him back in Tingen?
Perhaps he had been too weak then, with too little control over the Phantom Tide, for 0-08 to notice it right away... But it would be unreliable to draw a conclusion from a guess like that. He needed to verify it somehow...
Wait. I can verify it!
Luther quickly remembered another entity that knew 0-08 well. Groselle's Diary!
That book appeared to be a remnant of Ankewelt, the Dragon of Imagination. The City of Miracles lay hidden in the depths of its Mental World, and a mural in its palace even depicted 0-08 as a quill... The book had to know about 0-08!
"Looks like I need to tell Klein and borrow Groselle's Travels from him for a while."
Luther planned to enter the book again and ask whether it knew a way to deal with 0-08. He could also use the attraction between things of the same Pathway to draw Ince Zangwill out... Of course, the mural showed a dragon reviving after the two sides came into contact. That