The two of them ran up the wide staircase. When they arrived upstairs, they leaned on the desk where Lucia used to work, and she began to rummage through a drawer. She pulled out a letter opener, with which she leveraged the lid of the casket until the lock blew, managing to open it.
«You should never, ever have opened an antique container in that way», Antonella reproached her. «The contact with the air could have reduced to dust the paper documents inside!«
But in all likelihood the box was so well sealed that neither dust nor moisture had attacked its precious contents. It was not what Lucia had expected to find, however. Inside there was a kind of notebook, with handwritten pages with different calligraphies, and an elegant cover where stood out the design of a pentacle, this time a
