Trezlan had been reading the book for hours. It didn't make any sense why anyone would want it. He tried to infer based on the words some ulterior motive and came up with nothing. He even ran his translation software over the entire length of the book to make sure what he was reading was correct. Everything checked out to the letter. The book was written in multiple languages, over several time periods, but effectively it was a simple cook book.
It was dumbfounding to Trezlan. Why would anyone care about a stupid cook book? It was insane! Like he'd heard of all kinds of things for people to pursue for power or prestige but recipes for food? It had to be something else! He at first thought they were spells and the food was a hidden way of indicating regents. But everything he tried to make with them ended up one failure after another. So either it was a code book and he didn't have what it was equating to, or it was just some multi-generational cook book. Either one of these scenarios was completely depressing.
Trezlan wanted to burn the book and call off the meeting, but now he wanted to know why Riobeck wanted it. What possible secret could it hold? And the money would be nice, as running a ship full of AI robots wasn't exactly a money getting enterprise normally, or ever really. So he decided to keep the deal, though he wasn't super happy about the whole enterprise. That and one of the muffin recipes in the book was terrible, like the worst muffins he'd ever eaten and that was saying something.
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