"I mean, yeah, but--given access to one copy, it's possible to make more, so."

"...so... you go home and get to crank out as many grimoires as your heart desires... and the rest of us, what?"

"If your timeline matches up your El-equivalent will find it anyway but that is a big if, especially with us butterflying anything. And you do kind of have to wonder if the books we copy here won't immediately become magical as soon as we step out the door and vanish on us. Yvette tells me that her version of the Sutras is, ah... somewhat temperamental. She spoils them to death. I imagine no longer being unique might miff them."

"People used to copy the Sutras all the time...anyway, if I just, you know, have the door-forcing spell, I can give you a copy whenever, was what I was thinking."

"Assuming I can bring myself to ever come back."

"--Okay, fair, I did not anticipate that potential difficulty and so did not take it into account."

He smiles a bit. "The Scholomance does suck a lot," to other people. "Anyway, yeah people would copy it all the time but as far as I know all of the Sutras vanished, right? That was my concern, that bringing a lot of new copies of the Sutras over—or maybe even one new copy of them—might make them all feel less special and want to disappear the same way all other extant copies did."

"--I mean, people stopped using the Sutras, because the modern spells make bigger fancier enclaves. I feel like that has more to do with their rarity than their wanting to be unique?"

"It might! My worry might be unfounded. Just, you know, the Sutras Yvette found were brand-new, I don't think the newer enclave-building spells had already been out by the time that one vanished. My concern may be entirely unfounded, I just wanted to register it."

"El and I were always planning to copy them, albeit, like, over a longer timescale than this. On account of how without a magic time-stopping bar time is a really precious commodity in the Scholomance."

"Yeah, Yvette was planning to do that, too, also over a longer timescale, one at a time to people who would themselves use it, which assuages my concerns some since then they would immediately be loved and cherished by their new owners."

"Anyway, the thing I originally meant was that probably Bar has access to texts from our worlds that none of us have any access to at all, that are in that context even more exciting than the Golden Sutras. I'm not sure what, off the top of my head, but I am prepared to be surprised."