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Nicholas Boothman
Chapter 5: Mind Hooks
Coimbra’s twilight crept through the window
slats, casting fractured light across the pages on the
table. Henry stared at one particular fragment of
the sequence Carolina had uncovered, a worn
manuscript page from the 1600s, its Latin
marginalia etched in crimson ink.
“Vox Dei… in silentio,” he read aloud. “Latin for
‘the voice of God in silence.’ Basically, it means
truth shows itself in still, quiet moments.”
His gaze dropped to the carving, his finger
following the lines: not quite a maze, not quite a
circle, but a spiral that seemed to pull him in the
longer he looked.
“The ancients weren’t just telling stories,” he
said. “They were slipping in little mind hooks:
symbols and rhythms that get under your skin and
start steering your thoughts without you even
realizing it.”
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