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Tales of the Sanctum: Era of the Spellbound - Episode 9: What Faust Hath Found
by Brian Joseph Johns
As In Darkness, So In Light
Mila stood before the island countertop in her kitchen, a row of small house plants lined up before her, where each sat in its own pot and tray. She poured water from an old decanter she'd purchased at a local used goods store, giving each of the plants their share of water. When she'd finished with one, she'd step left to the next.
When she'd finished with each of them, she took them two at a time and returned them to their respective place in her home, then returning for the next two and so on until there was but one left.
The bonsai tree sat poignantly, a tiny tree whose trunk followed an elaborate curve, mostly horizontally, veering upwards sharply upon approaching the edge of the planter which contained it. This arrangement of curvature occurred twice before it arrived at a flurry of branches and boughs, each of them tiny and containing ever denser foliage the further it extended from the trunk.
She opened one of the drawers to her right, and retrieved a pair of clippers, wielding them in her left hand. She then began to carefully select, and then clip branches, or sometimes branches of branches from the tree, placing them on the countertop before her.
When she had done so five times, she collected the clippings and on a piece of white cardboard and arranged the first two of them so that they formed a "Y" shape there upon. She then leaned down and opened a cupboard beneath the island countertop and withdrew a tray whereupon sat a bottle of crafting glue, a pair of scissors and various ligatures that seemed to be formed up of clay, each of which was elaborately painted to the tiniest of detail in unimposing shades of pastel.
She placed the tray upon the counter, and then taking the glue, she began affixing the branch clipping to one another, until they formed what appeared to be a tiny bush.
She lowered herself closer to the bonsai tree and peered out through the sliding doors out into the backyard and the bright and sunny day beyond.
There was sleet and ice upon the ground, though much of it had begun melting around the edges. The grass beneath was sparse and withdrawn, still in its winter slumber while the tree that sat just to the right of her view, followed a curvature almost identical to that of the bonsai, though much much larger in terms of scale.
She lined up her view of the scene on her countertop, with the scene in her backyard, the ground coverage from the giant bonsai tree, down to the dock of the lake that inhabited part of her backyard.
The two trees lined up almost perfectly, the one on her countertop, and the one in her backyard. She then took the bush she'd just crafted, and placed it in the bonsai planter to match a similar bush just to the right of the tree in her yard. She made sure the bush in bonsai was secure, and then began piecing together some of the painted ligatures until they began to take on the shape of a bird. Once, she'd glued them together, she placed the bird upon a branch on the bonsai in her pot, once again making certain that it was affixed and sternly so.
She paused to admire her work, and then from the same viewpoint, she peered at the tree in her backyard. Not a second went by before a bird, almost identical to the one she'd just crafted and placed upon the bonsai, had landed in the tree in her backyard, watching her from the same limb as the equivalent limb of the bird she'd placed on the bonsai.
She admired the two, making sure that each of them were just right, before she took the rest of the pieces of ligature and continued assembling them and gluing them, until they took on the shape of a tiny deer. She confirmed that the fauna she'd just fabricated was stable and then placed it upon its tiny legs, its head poking through the bush in search of berries.
As she had before, she peered to the backyard and to the tree and the very bush that her deer had been foraging only to see a similar deer in her backyard. It too trying to find anything from which it could graze on the bush, finally settling upon a tiny bud nestled close to the border point between limb and branch.
She smiled, taking a moment to appreciate her own progress in the aether craft when a much larger deer suddenly stepped over to the bush, coaxing the smaller and younger deer away and presumably scolding it (by nudging it several times) before the two of them ran off into the brush surrounding the lake, disappearing into the shadows that contrasted the sunny brightness of the day.
The sound of the door chimes drew her away from her moment, as she returned her attention to her surroundings. She stepped over to a small video screen on her kitchen wall and pressed a touchscreen button on it. A video image emerged onto the screen, depicting Nelony, whose breath could be seen as she looked into the camera.
"Hello? Are you in there Mila?" Nelony waved to the camera, her voice emerging from the tiny speakers.
"Hi Nelony! Come in. I'm opening it now," Mila assured her as she pressed a button on the touchscreen marked: unlock.
The front door clicked and Nelony stepped into the front foyer, stomping her feet several times on the door mat and brushing what little snow and ice there was on her boots.
"That's a bit of a walk from the bus stop to your place. Glad its only minus ten out there," Nelony said grabbed the broom and dust pan near the door and swept the refuse she'd removed from her boots into it before removing them.
She then picked her favourite slippers from Mila's slipper rack, and stepped into them, grabbing up the dust pan and carrying it over to the sliding doors, which she opened, dumping the bits into the compost beside the doors.
"Thank you. Care for some tea?" asked Mila of her friend.
"Oh, that's lovely. Did you just add the bird?" Nelony noticed that detail right away.
"Just before you got here. What kind of tea would you like? I have Oolong, Shanghai green, Osaka glory, Orange pekoe, English breakfast or Earl Grey?" Mila asked Nelony.
"I'll have the English breakfast despite it being after lunch, if you don't mind," Nelony smiled, removing her coat, hat and mitts and hanging them on a rack by the door.
"Where's Shaela today?" asked Mila.
"She's out with Wes. They went to visit the London Archivist Society's collection of books on our favourite topic," Nelony opened the cupboard for Mila as she replaced her art tray within.
"That will undoubtedly be good for our progress if they can find anything," Mila noted aloud.
"And then some. Oh, I almost forgot!" Nelony ran back over to her coat and withdrew a paper back from one of the pockets.
"You're going to spoil that puppy sick, you know?" Mila shook her head.
"The poor little fella has to have something to look forward to from my visits. Where is he?" Nelony asked as she retrieved the designer biscuit from within.
"He's up stairs, passed out. He just finished the last of his breakfast about a half an hour before you showed up. Leave it here for him. We'll give it to him when he wakes up. Milk and sugar?" Mila poured Nelony's tea from the hot water appliance on her fridge.
"One and one, please. So, the reason I came over, aside from spoiling Happiu~isuka silly, was that I found this story when I was reading the news the other day," Nelony pulled her phone from her pocket and quickly navigated the interface to bring up a saved web page entry of a small news article from the London Times, then sliding the phone over to Mila across the counter.
Mila placed Nelony's tea on the counter and then her own, and then picked up the phone and began reading the article.
"...James Benley...? I don't know him. Was he someone in our school?" asked Mila after having quickly browsed the article.
"No. He's someone our age who fell upon difficult times and... you didn't notice the other name?" confirmed Nelony.
"Who? This Norton fellow?" asked Mila.
"Yes. May I suggest that you look a little closer...?" Nelony urged her.
Mila reread the article, this time paying closer attention to the name that Nelony had indicated, even reading his name aloud when she'd arrived thereupon.
"...Norton Bidner. It sounds familiar? Oh...? Norton Bidner. Nor - Bid. Norbid. That can't be right? Or maybe its just a coincidence?" Mila suggested, though suspiciously as much so as was Nelony of the coincidence.
"That's what I thought initially. However, there's another article related to a different story. Published in the same online newspaper, two days later. Scroll to the right..." Nelony explained to Mila, who immediately followed her instructions.
"Jorge Stockard? Well at least he has money. More so than this other James Benley fellow, though its probably difficult in any case where there's contention over one's identity... Norville Bidman? Are you certain of this?" Mila surmised after having read both articles, only to find that the second party mentioned in the story had a similarly suspicious name as the man in the first.
"You read it right there. Norville Bidman. Nor-Bid. Norbid?" Nelony followed the same chain of logic that had led Mila to find the nature of their mystery.
"So, in the case of this James Benley fellow, he ended up involved in an altercation over issues of his identity not being officially recognized after his identification had been allegedly stolen, which this Norton Bidner fellow who is a private investigator, explained that delusions and mental illness are quite common amongst the population of the homeless, claiming that James Benley's claims over his own identity are fraudulent," Mila confirmed her understanding of the news story with Nelony.
"Correct. He's obviously experiencing issues related to his identity," Nelony agreed.
"This other Jorge Stockard fellow, he's quite rich. Far richer than me, and he's claiming the same thing. That his claim to identity is not being recognized by the people around him, which led to his altercation and to the publishing of his news story. There's obviously a good motive in Jorge's case. He's a multi-millionaire..." Mila reasoned with Nelony.
"Yes indeed. Four hundred million quid is definitely not small change..." Nelony agreed with Mila's observation.
"...but this other fellow? James Benley? He's destitute. He's homeless, or at least he was. He has nothing of value that would be a viable motive for those around him trying to steal his identity," Mila saw no connection between the stories other than the hidden coincidence involving the name Norbid, and the fact that both stories seemed to be centered around the theft of one's identity.
"Really? If you were to take a handful of cash and that designer biscuit and put them each in a bowl on the floor for Happiu~isuka, I think we can both agree that Happiu~isuka would turn his nose up at the money.
"True. Some things are more valuable than money to some individuals, I guess depending upon their situations?" Mila nodded in agreement, taking a sip of her tea.
"How far a cry would it be to consider that these stories came to our attention not long after our having solved the mystery of Goethe and the human soul?" asked Nelony.
"Are you saying that the two mysteries are related?" asked Mila.
"Seems possible," Nelony looked over the rim of her cup as she too took a sip of her tea.
"We determined that the concept of the human soul insofar as the Norbids were attempting to employ it, was like a currency, derived from the events and memories of one's own life, and that it could be used to make purchases, or even be stolen by others," Mila once again followed the trail back to their line of reasoning over the mystery of Goethe.
"Who's to say that this James Benley and Jorge Stockman aren't experiencing the same, or similar thing?" asked Nelony as she placed her cup back on the counter.
"But how can someone's memories be stolen?" asked Mila.
"That's a question that's still up in the air. However we do know that the events of one's life are considered the soul and a form of currency insofar as these Norbid fellows are concerned. Not only that, but they consider memories as the means to hide the past, or even to completely rewrite it," Nelony dug deeply into her philosophical understanding of that which they'd discussed with Miana only two weeks earlier.
"Who's to say what the past is, if there's nobody left with the courage or decency to remember it?" Mila considered aloud.
"So... I was thinking that in the name of helping at least one of these fellows, that we venture into London and have a visit with this fellow, and the homeless shelter where he lived before finding himself housed. I mean, at least we have better access to him than a man with four hundred million quid. Seems more to fit the service of duty of a pair of Wytches of our Sanctum, doesn't it?" Nelony suggested to Mila, taking another sip of her tea and then smiling at the prospect of their own little adventure.
"Very true, and it does at least allow us to progress the Sanctum further, considering that Shaela and Wes are already out there committing their time to such an endeavor. I wouldn't want us to be riding on their coat tails or anything," Mila took a sip of her tea, finishing it and placing it on the counter before her, smiling and winking at Nelony.
Nelony grabbed the paper bag with the biscuit and proceeded over to the stairs.
"How about I feed that little furry monster of yours this treat, and you get ready for our little adventure," Nelony suggested to her friend.
"Now that sounds like a deal to me, but make sure you leave no crumbs on the couch upstairs, or my bed," Mila smiled as she gathered up their cups and loaded them into the dishwasher.
As in Destitution, So in Wealth
To be continued in Era of the Spellbound: Episode 11
Credits and attribution:
Special Thanks to the Natural History Museum in London, England and of course to the Royal Ontario Museum in my own home of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Special Thanks To Rocket Fuel Lakeshore Blvd West, perhaps the best place in history to get a coffee, circa 2001-2004. Miss you all very much.
Artwork: Amy Wong, Wendy Pusey, Ghastly, Birdman, Brian Joseph Johns, Daz3D, Unreal Engine...Tools: Daz3D, Corel Painter, Adobe Photoshop, Lightwave 3D, Blender, Stable Diffusion (Easy Diffusion distribution), InstantID, Sadtalker, Google Colaboratory, Microsoft Copilot (Windows 11), Hitfilm, PhotoPea (a great web based Photoshop stand-in if you're on a low budget or in a pinch), Borderline Obsession...
DeepSeek AI for suggestions on exercises to improve aspects of describing scene and settings with a more sensory focused grammar.
InstantID by: Wang, Qixun and Bai, Xu and Wang, Haofan and Qin, Zekui and Chen, Anthony. Research Paper Title: InstantID - Zero-shot Identity-Preserving Generation in Seconds.
Sadtalker by: Zhang, Wenxuan and Cun, Xiaodong and Wang, Xuan and Zhang, Yong and Shen, Xi and Guo, Yu and Shan, Ying and Wang, Fei.
Research Paper Title: SadTalker: Learning Realistic 3D Motion Coefficients for Stylized Audio-Driven Single Image Talking Face Animation.
Gratitude: Our Mentors, Senseis, Sifus, Sebomnims, lifetime inspirations, family, friends, the Nomads (ask Stanton about that one), the Music, the Movies, the Theatre, the Arts, ASMR, (both YouTube and Bilibili and the many other creators on those platforms), the Gaming and Developer communities and of course, the audience.
Martial Arts (in the words of real experts and at least one comedian): https://brucelee.com (home of the real Dragon and an entire family of inspirations), http://iwco.online International Wing Chun Organization (International presence of a very scalable intensity martial art, protected and developed by Shaolin Nun Ng Mui) and the alma mater of Jinn Hua's own specialized variation thereof, https://iogkf.com International Okinawan Goju-Ryu Karatedo Federation (even Hanshi had his teachers), https://itftkd.sport International Taekwondo Federation (Here there be Taegers), https://tangsoodoworld.com Tang Soo Do World (the path of Grandmaster Chuck Norris), https://www.aikido-international.org International Aikido Federation (how else would Navy Chef Steven Seagal liberate a Nimitz Class Aircraft Carrier from a team of hijackers?), https://www.stqitoronto.com Shaolin Temple Quanfa Institute (The City Of Toronto's own Shaolin Temple), https://www.enterthedojoshow.com Master Ken's Ameri-Te-Do presence (If we can't laugh at ourselves, then we can at least laugh the loudest at others, and other Zen)
Magic (performance, illusion and perhaps the real thing): Magic Week Archive (I'm currently growing this section so stay tuned)
Special thanks to Aitrepreneur, Mickmumpitz, Hugging Face and the YouTube educational content producers, including those catering to the AI content production pipeline and of course AlphaSignal.
Shi Heng Yi Shaolin Training For Self Mastery
A reknowned Sifu under whose tutelage you can study the theory and practical applications of the Shaolin Arts for health, physical and mental wellbeing in every day life
Shi Heng Yi Shaolin Training For Self Mastery
A reknowned Sifu under whose tutelage you can study the theory and practical applications of the Shaolin Arts for health, physical and mental wellbeing in every day life
Jesse Enkamp: Karate Nerd
Jesse, a reknowned Sensei who runs his own dojo, explores the world of Martial Arts, traveling to many exotic locations to meet practitioners of a variety of different arts
Sensei Rokas: Martial Arts Journey
A reknowned Sensei of Aikido who in seeking to understand the roots of Aikido and its applications, seeks to stress test its effectiveness in a number of real world situations while studying its history
Seamus O'Dowd
An extensive growing archive Katas, Techniques and Waza (mostly Shotokan)
Iaido: Train For Katana Mastery Like Samurai
The original weapons focused curriculum under which Samurai became masters of their art
Tapp Brothers Exercise For Better Motion
Extensive courses for calisthenics and body strength, stamina and flexibility
Special thanks to Canva for inspiring other creators and giving them the tools
Special thanks to Captain Crunch and his wonderful sister!
Special thanks to Bandcamp for giving indie music artists a home under one roof
Something to give you perspective: The very first teacher had no formal education, didn't graduate and was self taught, but only because they had no other choice. We do.
Tools: Daz3D, Corel Painter, Adobe Photoshop, Lightwave 3D, Blender, Stable Diffusion (Easy Diffusion distribution), InstantID, Sadtalker, Google Colaboratory, Microsoft Copilot (Windows 11), Hitfilm, PhotoPea (a great web based Photoshop stand-in if you're on a low budget or in a pinch), Borderline Obsession...
DeepSeek AI for suggestions on exercises to improve aspects of describing scene and settings with a more sensory focused grammar.
InstantID by: Wang, Qixun and Bai, Xu and Wang, Haofan and Qin, Zekui and Chen, Anthony. Research Paper Title: InstantID - Zero-shot Identity-Preserving Generation in Seconds.
Sadtalker by: Zhang, Wenxuan and Cun, Xiaodong and Wang, Xuan and Zhang, Yong and Shen, Xi and Guo, Yu and Shan, Ying and Wang, Fei.
Research Paper Title: SadTalker: Learning Realistic 3D Motion Coefficients for Stylized Audio-Driven Single Image Talking Face Animation.
Gratitude: Our Mentors, Senseis, Sifus, Sebomnims, lifetime inspirations, family, friends, the Nomads (ask Stanton about that one), the Music, the Movies, the Theatre, the Arts, ASMR, (both YouTube and Bilibili and the many other creators on those platforms), the Gaming and Developer communities and of course, the audience.
Martial Arts (in the words of real experts and at least one comedian): https://brucelee.com (home of the real Dragon and an entire family of inspirations), http://iwco.online International Wing Chun Organization (International presence of a very scalable intensity martial art, protected and developed by Shaolin Nun Ng Mui) and the alma mater of Jinn Hua's own specialized variation thereof, https://iogkf.com International Okinawan Goju-Ryu Karatedo Federation (even Hanshi had his teachers), https://itftkd.sport International Taekwondo Federation (Here there be Taegers), https://tangsoodoworld.com Tang Soo Do World (the path of Grandmaster Chuck Norris), https://www.aikido-international.org International Aikido Federation (how else would Navy Chef Steven Seagal liberate a Nimitz Class Aircraft Carrier from a team of hijackers?), https://www.stqitoronto.com Shaolin Temple Quanfa Institute (The City Of Toronto's own Shaolin Temple), https://www.enterthedojoshow.com Master Ken's Ameri-Te-Do presence (If we can't laugh at ourselves, then we can at least laugh the loudest at others, and other Zen)
Magic (performance, illusion and perhaps the real thing): Magic Week Archive (I'm currently growing this section so stay tuned)
Special thanks to Aitrepreneur, Mickmumpitz, Hugging Face and the YouTube educational content producers, including those catering to the AI content production pipeline and of course AlphaSignal.
Shi Heng Yi Shaolin Training For Self Mastery
A reknowned Sifu under whose tutelage you can study the theory and practical applications of the Shaolin Arts for health, physical and mental wellbeing in every day life
Shi Heng Yi Shaolin Training For Self Mastery
A reknowned Sifu under whose tutelage you can study the theory and practical applications of the Shaolin Arts for health, physical and mental wellbeing in every day life
Jesse Enkamp: Karate Nerd
Jesse, a reknowned Sensei who runs his own dojo, explores the world of Martial Arts, traveling to many exotic locations to meet practitioners of a variety of different arts
Sensei Rokas: Martial Arts Journey
A reknowned Sensei of Aikido who in seeking to understand the roots of Aikido and its applications, seeks to stress test its effectiveness in a number of real world situations while studying its history
Seamus O'Dowd
An extensive growing archive Katas, Techniques and Waza (mostly Shotokan)
Iaido: Train For Katana Mastery Like Samurai
The original weapons focused curriculum under which Samurai became masters of their art
Tapp Brothers Exercise For Better Motion
Extensive courses for calisthenics and body strength, stamina and flexibility
Special thanks to Canva for inspiring other creators and giving them the tools
Special thanks to Captain Crunch and his wonderful sister!
Special thanks to Bandcamp for giving indie music artists a home under one roof
Something to give you perspective: The very first teacher had no formal education, didn't graduate and was self taught, but only because they had no other choice. We do.
This content is entirely produced in Toronto, Ontario, Canada at 200 Sherbourne Street Suite 701 under the Shhhh! Digital Media banner.
This content is entirely produced in Toronto, Ontario, Canada at 200 Sherbourne Street Suite 701 under the Shhhh! Digital Media banner.
Brian Joseph Johns
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Produced at Shhhh! Digital Media
200 Sherbourne Street Suite 701
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Inquiries: brian.joseph.johns@shhhhdigital.com, info@shhhhdigital.com
Produced at Shhhh! Digital Media
200 Sherbourne Street Suite 701
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Inquiries: brian.joseph.johns@shhhhdigital.com, info@shhhhdigital.com
Copyright © 2025 Brian Joseph Johns