February 23, 2025
I can hardly believe it, but I’ve finally pieced together “Isabel.” For weeks, nearly 18 hours a day, I sifted through Mr. Smoe’s boxes, aligning his crude numbering system with my own. I stitched scattered scraps into one complete manuscript: eleven “Books,” each eight pages long, each page containing eight lines, yet each line can shift into eight possible forms. If my math is correct (my son holds a Ph.D. in math, not me), that’s 16,777,216 ways to read a single book, and there are eleven of them. Taken all together, that yields about 3.4 × 10^79 possible variations to read the entire book. At three minutes per reading, it would take 1.94 × 10^74 years, far outlasting our universe. It’s no exaggeration to say no human could ever finish the entire book.
Yet “Isabel” is only eighty-eight physical pages, a seemingly brief work. The gap between something so compact and so infinitely long feels magical, as though each line is its own entire 300-page novel. I’m convinced the secrets needed to contain—or even end—Candle Face lie here, woven through the story of La Llorona’s forgotten daughter. If Isabel was indeed murdered by her mother, that alone makes her a victim. Being overshadowed by two brothers who rose to godhood only deepens that wound, fueling centuries of anger.
In light of all this, I’ve decided to publish the manuscript with Mr. Smoe credited as the main author, since these notes began with him. I’ll list myself as co-author, the one who cracked the code and assembled the puzzle. That feels right. I couldn’t have done it without him, and he couldn’t have shared it without me. Together, we’ve produced something that might be the key to halting Candle Face’s threat. Or, as Aaron from GenX Paranormal Investigations warns, it could be a trap, a master plan in which Candle Face uses us to spread her name and power worldwide. What if these scraps were left for me, knowing I’d solve them, turning this book into her vessel? Maybe so. But a double-edged sword can cut both ways, and while her legend grows, our understanding of her grows as well. Knowledge is power. The more we learn, the better our odds of shattering her power and freeing every soul she has trapped.
Time will tell which side prevails. For now, “Isabel” stands as a vast puzzle, each line ready to shift and reshape everything we think we know about Candle Face. If we’re careful, if we remain vigilant, we just might free our world from her hold for centuries to come. Every shift in text could be one step nearer to dismantling her story—or granting her the strength to endure. It’s up to us.
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