        Turning the page, he was confronted with a wall of text in the same quasi-runes as those on the beach, while the facing page was filled with the flowing script which made up the second line of the title page.  He scanned over both for a while, mentally counting the distinct characters.  It seemed that there were more in the cursive than the runic, although he wasn’t absolutely sure.  The cursive had entirely distinct letters, while the runic frequently had additions to the ‘base’ character.  He suddenly realized that they were probably accents, which made the message on the beach clearer—it was the alphabet, and the other forms of the letter were beneath its primary form.