"The drawing around the first letter of the scroll..." Lori began.
"Illumination," both Galen and Lydia chimed in.
"Will you two stop that?" Jason shook his head. "Go ahead, Ms. Gordon.
"Call me Lori. And yes, the rest of us are just humans. Now listen. The drawing shows a woman sort of superimposed on a snake, or maybe the other way around. She has one red jewel on her forehead - sort of Asian for a medieval European art, don't you think? She has another on her chest - like over her heart - and another on her stomach. What do you want to bet that's an instruction manual?"
"Sort of like chakras," David said. "The three bonds. Mind, heart and body. The magic has to go in through those points."
"Of course!" Galen punched a fist in the air, while Lydia cried, "Yes!" Then they kissed agai
