Stacking plastic storage containers in a box in the kitchen, Riadh looked over his shoulder as Dale came into the room. The man was carrying a thick scrapbook style binder.
“I found this in a cupboard in the living room. It looks like…” Dale hesitated for a moment, “A book of magic spells.”
“Mistress Mildred’s grimoire.”
“You knew about this?”
“Yes.”
“And you didn’t tell me.”
Riadh flinched. “No, I didn’t know it was something you wanted to find.”
Dale set the book on the counter. “I didn’t know she had one. I mean, okay, you said she was an adept and she did some magic for people. I guess I thought it was stuff she had just learned. It didn’t occur to me there was an instruction book.”
“Not an instruction book per se. More like an annotated recipe book she developed over her life
