"It's an instruction manual? A surprisingly up front and clear one, actually. Apparently I." She looks down at the book again. "The exact thing it's calling me isn't really translatable. 'Touched by an Other' maybe? But a - a, I don't actually know what it is, but a big powerful extra-dimensional eldritch thing, basically, decided that it liked me and. Gave me the building blocks to build my own magic powers."

"Clear and easy to understand Cthulu who wants to help you?" 

"Any reason given for why it likes you so much?" 

"I get the impression it's less 'help me' and more 'wants to see what I'll do with magic powers.' And - no. No reason given."

"Right. Any idea if it's safe for us to read it, or know what it says? I suppose if it's instructions for your powers it won't help us much."

"I don't really see why it would be unsafe for me to read it to you, but I don't think you could read it yourselves. I mentioned to Scott that it wasn't in an intelligible language but I understood it anyway? It's meant for me to read, specifically."

Nod.

"I'll leave you to the reading, then. Warn me before you try to implement a suggestion, that's more concerning."

And he sits, and tries to get some work done. 

"Should I do anything?" 

"Uh. I don't think you need to, I should be all right. Thank you, though."

"Right. I'll check in on the animals." 

"All right. I'll be here. Reading my creepy instruction manual."

Scott and Dr. Deaton keep themselves busy. 

Yvette reads her creepy instruction manual.

"Um," she says, after a while, eyes widening. "Um."

Deaton is by her side rather quickly.

(Still outside the circle, though.)

"You found something big?" 

"Sort of! It's mostly just weird and creepy! I um. I. You know what, why don't I just read the passage, I am having trouble putting it into words, does everyone want to hear me read the weird passage?"

"Go ahead." 

"'Those bestowed with the gift of an -' I'm going to keep going with Other, the concept's like 'a being outside of and greater than the ordinary multiverse' - 'can, with sufficient effort and intellect aspire to develop and mature, and eventually ascend to the,' uh, let's go with 'Outer Reaches,' that's close enough to its meaning and sounds about right, 'and be, be born with the Others in their unknowable and distant reach, and in so doing, be given the chance to grow and become their peer.'" She pauses. "That was born, specifically, not reborn, with the implication that everything up until then was - development." Another pause.

"So apparently I am now a Cthulhu embryo, I am alarmed."

"Our magic system usually doesn't warn us before we do anything irreversibly self-destructive let's...take that as a positive." 

"I- you have to stop, right? It's gotta be dangerous, maturing into one of...those things. Not just for you, either." 

"There isn't a way to - to cease being a, Cthulhu embryo. According to the book. It's just a thing that I am now, because they are so great at consent. The magic design's the, the 'maturation,' and I don't think I can accidentally become one of them. It's -" she flips a few pages. "Yeah, see, it's going through a very specific step by step instruction on how to, to 'ascend,' and what's required to do it. And - wow that is complicated what even are those concepts. Yeah, no, I won't be able to get near this thing accidentally."

"So...you're going to use the scary magic. Okay. Is there anything besides ascending that would be creepy and Other?"

"I didn't - necessarily say that I was going to use the scary magic, just. I am not going to wake up one day and randomly be Cthulhu. And - there might be, I'm not sure, I haven't read about that yet."

"How does this book feel about being kept in physical form? Summoning it every time could have...other effects." 

"I'll check, I haven't found it yet, anyway. Hopefully I can at least get it to - stop. Hanging out. Behind my eyelids."