The Books

Jp with Redsword, Jaxx, Trustno1, mdman, Lorem and Cindy

Sung was unusually quiet in the morning. He did clean up and had a small black bag with him. The bag was stored in the SUV just for situations like this. He did not socialize much. He stayed in the background. Sung would help if they needed it. He asked if he could add to the order of Starbucks mostly bagels and some tea.

After getting everyone's order, Agent Powers placed the order to Starbucks to have it delivered. He ordered a large assortments of beverages and snacks since the two teams were going to be doing a lot of research and would need the caffeine. Once he was done he checked his phone messages and replied to them.

When it seemed like Sung nor Peter jumped in to offer help on the books, Alyssa figured that her and Choi would end up doing all the work, even if that wasn't the original plan. She just shrugged at the idea. If either of them jumped in it would help but she wasn't asking. Max was willing to help and he seemed adamit on ordering someone and not just having Prue always get everything. Alyssa ordered a vente frozen Caramel Mocha. Lots of sugar and caffeine.

She now had one backpack for her laptop and various equipment for it, however she now had a smaller bag with notebooks, writing implements and a small hand held device that would allow for scanning the Bible into a pdf.

It took several hours, they only broke for lunch but by around 3 PM everything was done. She sent a copy of the Bible to Peter, Choi, Sung and herself. Enu-Ji probably had a copy, as she had been holding on to it.

She then asked everyone into the living room to update them on what they found.

The Book of Shadows contained various poetic spells and references to creatures that are several thousand years old. In the back of the book, there was something extremely odd. A passage written in there that had probably been there the whole time but it looked like it had only been written recently in black ink. "I never saw this one before," said Piper. The passage read, That is not dead which can eternal lie, / And with strange aeons even death may die.

The Testament of Saint Ede the Pious, contained information about how he was charged as a heretic in the Spanish Inquisition. He had his mouth and eyes sewn shut. He also claimed to have received special knowledge on fighting dark forces. There is also a mention that seemed to have been scrawled out by hand, no way to recover the exact statement, There was mention of a special dagger, known as the "Scalpel of R'gley." Alyssa knew what that was and who had been in possession of it, but held off mentioning that for the moment.