Author · Lea Nachtmann·German
Before the night on the Brocken, a book appears, recording debts no one claims to have incurred.
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Opening scene
Shortly before Walpurgis, a slim volume appears in Faust's study, its pages recording contracts, desires, and price demands that were never openly spoken. Mephisto calls it a trifling game, yet Gretchen is mentioned in a marginal note before she has even entered the room. Faust quickly realizes that the book does not collect past guilt, but prepares future consent. Anyone who turns the pages risks falling into temptation, already treating their own silence as agreement.
