The Manuscript

...Is 3 sheets of faded off-white paper a little larger than a man's fist, stapled together like a book. The text is small, obsessively neat and angular hand writing in blue ink, for the most part.

First page:

Book of Revelation

Revelation 1

[3] Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.

Revelation 5

1 Then I saw in the right hand of him who sat on the throne a scroll with writing on both sides and sealed with seven seals. 2 And I saw a mighty angel proclaiming in a loud voice, “Who is worthy to break the seals and open the scroll?” 3 But no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth could open the scroll or even look inside it.

Second Page:

Revelation 6

1And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.

2And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.

3And when he had opened the second seal, I heard the second beast say, Come and see.

4And there went out another horse that was red: and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword.

5And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.

Third Page:

6And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.

7And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.

8And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.

9And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held:
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Additionally, on the back of the third page is a cursive script reading "Gordon Rosewater" & a doodle of a smiling old man's face with closed eyes superimposed on a tomato. The doodle is in pencil with only 2 or 3 small smudge marks.

And then Vega had weird ass dreams of that doodle chanting, "Memories & tomatoes," & underneath that, "Burn it all."

Wait, isn't Zell a tomato?!

Tomatos are just memories.

Ah, and Zell is just someone else's tomatoes in a cloned body.

What a weird way of putting it.

True though.

I suppose.