I · CALCINATION

You followed the eye that watches back. Good. The Watcher keeps a ledger, and your name is not in it yet.

Twelve gates ring the stone, and the old masters numbered them in order, from the burning to the casting-out. The report you just read lists them. Take from each gate the letter at the place given, gate first and letter second:

1·3   3·4   5·1   1·5   8·1

What you spell is what the whole Work is for. Offer it to the stone.

the Silicon Hermetica · layer i · a myth, played for keeps