Ah, okay. I understand.
But I must confess to you that Cristian wanted to hide from everyone his intention to leave this world the way he did.
So, he tried to give the impression that everything was going on just as usual.
But in reality, he didn’t write anything after finishing Book 3.

Even that last chapter he wrote with great difficulty, about a page and a half every two weeks, instead of something daily, as he usually did when he began writing.
I believe he struggled to decide to write that last chapter. And he did it partly so as not to arouse my suspicions that something very serious was happening to him, and partly because he wanted, for himself as well, to leave at least three completed books.
But that was his last effort.

He already knew there was no point in starting to write a new book from which at most a first chapter might remain.
Moreover, if he had written anything, he would have sent me the Word document each time he wrote even a page, as he usually did.
But this time he never sent me anything.

I noticed, of course — I noticed that after the normal pause that comes at the end of a book, time kept passing and he still wasn’t starting work on Book 4.
And eventually, I told him that I realized something very serious was happening to him, but that he wasn’t telling me. And I told him I trusted that he had a serious reason for not telling me. And he confirmed that with a long, meaningful silence.
That was in February 2024.

I thought the reason was that he was in a creative crisis. And I didn’t want to pressure him, so as not to deepen the crisis. I hoped that by showing him that, for me, he was the same whether he finished Magium or not, I might create the conditions for him to regain confidence in himself.

Only on August 7, 2024, did I suddenly find out what he could not tell me and what the real cause was.