Case #0071202
Statement taken from a loose page of notebook paper that looks as though it were ripped from a larger book, regarding… some situations. Original statement recovered December 2nd, 2007.
Anything written on this page will come true.
[ARCHIVIST’S NOTE: The first sentence is written in dark red ink of some kind. The rest of the page is written in various other kinds of material, but pencil and pen are the most common.]
i’ll find the ring i lost by tonight.
the dog won’t bark at the mailman.
my little sister’s stuffed animal is not broken.
my little sister’s stuffed animal can’t be broken.
i’ll get a 100 on my math test tomorrow.
… my homework will do itself.
my hair is red.
my hair is brown again :/
… my hair is red until i decide if i like it or not
i don’t care about amy barker.
the dog will be able to get any trick on the first try
the dog is a very good boy :D
i am a girl.
mom won’t give me shit for being a girl.
my hair is a little longer and curlier!
i have enough money to get that dress i want.
i know if i like girls or not
i have more confidence
i can talk to girls without sounding stupid
amy barker gets what’s coming for her.
my legal name is lyra rose langley.
i can change my appearance at will
we get a cat
dad gets the job
mom will stop being shitty about me liking girls.
mom will go away.
mom will come back to life.
[ARCHIVIST’S NOTE: The last sentence is scratched out viciously, to the point where the paper tears a little bit.]
FOLLOW-UP NOTES
The... implications this statement leaves you with are. Interesting and unpleasant. Not necessarily the getting rid of your abusive, transphobic, homophobic mother aspect, that’s honestly fine with me. I would’ve taken full advantage of a magic notebook that can get rid of transphobia when I was a teenager. What’s more worrying is the attempt to bring her back, only to cross out the sentence again.
It’s unsettling, at the very least, and horrifying at most. I don’t think I want to know what happened when Mrs. Langley woke up.
We were able to find Ms. Lyra Langley’s contact information, though she declined to speak to Institute staff for now. She said she may reconsider at a later date, but it isn’t something she wants to speak of with us as of now.
I’m going to send this down to Artifact Storage. I don’t know if the page still holds any power, but it’s better to be safe than sorry.