Lauren’s revelation was more than just a personal epiphany, as evidenced by her following correspondence with the Cagliostro:
C: Cancel your travel plans. I want you here in Turin immediately.
L: I’m so sorry, what do you mean? Cancel my trip to see my family? Is this about the journal? Did I do something wrong?
C: I don’t care about the journal. You have proven yourself worthy, as I suspected. Now we have important work to do, you and I. Return to the loft immediately.
L: Will Carfax handle all of this or should I make my own travel arrangements?
C: You won’t be taking a plane.
What kind of magic did the Cagliostro possess that he could summon Lauren to Turin from New York without the use of a plane? What the hell was I going to see at his Translation?
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I’d been so wrapped up
