Charon had been thinking about the trinity for some time, it had occupied her thoughts far more than it should have done and her training was suffering as a result. She looked over at Spade and cocked an eyebrow at him.
“Right, yeah, we’ll just pop over to Castle Mortis on the pretence of wanting to borrow a cup of sugar. I’m pretty sure by the time they realise we’re there to kick their asses it’ll be way too late for them to kill us or worse…breathe on us.”
Spade almost pouted but he did stop and look at her for a few moments.
“Okay so the plan has a few tiny flaws.”
Charon sighed.
“The problem is, until we know exactly what Sincentius wants, I don’t really know what we can do but then on the other hand, I’m worried that if we wait it might already be too late. This is ridiculous. Spade go home and do whatever it is you do when you’re high on sugar…”
Charon felt the need to do some research on the original Sincentius problem and the original Charon who’d defeated him. Spade seemed to be lost in his own thoughts once more, even as Charon tried to shoo him out of the library and in the end she shoved a large jar of jellybeans into his arms and shut the front door on him. Ten minutes later she could hear him chasing hell hounds round the grounds.
Charon slipped out a side door and walked towards the Death Family graveyard, it was only dimly lit at this time of night but she knew the grounds well and soon found the crypt her mothers body occupied. She opened up the door and walked in. She descended the steps slowly and walked through into the main chamber, several books tucked under her arm.
She’d walked the chamber probably hundreds of times and she did so now, she always came here when she needed to think or ponder a problem. She sighed and dropped her head back on her shoulders and looked at the ceiling. She stared at it some more and then looked round the crypt room again, everything was in three’s. Three stars painted above the coffin, a three stranded knot design on the coffin itself, the number three was everywhere but why?
She put the first book down and leafed to the page regarding Sincentius, the Charon who had defeated Sincentius had a three stranded knot design on his top. She turned to the volume regarding the Valrixous, again they had a three starred emblem on their tops. Again, Sincentius, Death and Valrixous, three sides, a triangle. What was so bloody powerful about the number three?
It wasn’t long before another emblem began recurring through the books and the crypt, it was a triangle with a dot at it’s centre. She had no idea what it meant and the whole situation was driving her to distraction.
