"--- Watson, kindly pass over my index on dead languages."
[ the wall before him has been transformed into a collage of yellowed texts and lithographs and sketches taken down from memory of various murals and hieroglyphs.
some characters bear distinct similarities to latin; others to greek, still others to pictish, fingalian, laiuse romani -- ----- the list goes on, and yet no attempts at decrypting the text have succeeded. ]












