Racolo          Syrrah            Cammeo

Thursday, in Racolo’s office at Magick School ...

RACOLO:

Syrrah, what are you doing here?

SYRRAH:

I have come to see you of course. Is this not a good time?

RACOLO:

It's fine. Have a seat.

SYRRAH:

I shall get right to my purpose. Usagi believes 

Karanthir’s recent illness was caused by poisoning.

RACOLO:

I know, Vanni told me.

SYRRAH:

I must know for certain and I believe you can be of great help.

RACOLO:

You got it. What can I do?

SYRRAH:

As you know, I have been working as a healing consultant for your human

medical doctors. I do not always understand their ways but have found

that they are able to find many answers from the drawing of one's blood.

RACOLO:

Isn't it a little late for that? Karanthir's already cured.

SYRRAH:

He is, but when he first became ill, I took a sample to the lab.

SYRRAH:
… Perhaps, once they have studied it - you can view the results to

see if a potion could have been made that would cause his illness?

RACOLO:

I’ll try. It’ll be interesting to see what could poison a vampire - if that’s 

what happened. Man, if only I still had my grandmother's book.

SYRRAH:

Qualina wrote a book?

RACOLO:

Uh-huh. She studied vampires. They were her area of expertise - I don't mean the way she is now, but back when she was my grandmother 

– the woman who raised me.

SYRRAH:

Her older self.

RACOLO:

Uh-huh. She kept her notes in a book - years of research, on what makes 

vampires tick. I came across it but lost it before I had a chance to look at it.

SYRRAH:

Why have I never been told of this?

RACOLO:

Well, I’m … embarrassed, misplacing that book. 

SYRRAH:

Where is Qualina now? Perhaps she may still know something of value?

 RACOLO:

No, she's just beginning to understand magic. Like you said, we need 

her older self. When I first realized the book was missing, I tried a summoning spell to find it. That's how she ended up here in the first place.

SYRRAH:

I wonder why her younger self arrived instead of this book?

RACOLO:

I’ve been trying to figure that out ever since she got here. All I’ve come up with is - maybe she needed to meet Es to give her this purpose?

SYRRAH:

That is a good theory. Racolo. If Qualina cannot help us, perhaps

you know of another who has a knowledge of vampires?

RACOLO:

You may want to talk to Cammeo. She was a Seeker back in the day.

SYRRAH:
I am not familiar with Seeker.

RACOLO:

Vampire hunter. I don't know much about them except they worked with some Committee, who trained them, and sent them on missions.

SYRRAH:

Cammeo did this? How surprising. I will speak with her. Perhaps this Committee will be of use to us too? Thank you, you have been most helpful.

Later ...

CAMMEO:

… I prefer not to think of my time as a Seeker. I wasn't very happy then,

but I understand how important this is. I don’t think the Committee will

be much help to you. They're not known for being very forth coming.

SYRRAH:

I am a Daughter of IlluminatA, they surely will know of me and cooperate.

CAMMEO:

I suppose, but Herita may be of more help to you. She was always

studying ways to make potions to assist us in our hunts.

SYRRAH:

Explain.

CAMMEO:

Well you see, out of the two us, I was the better fighter. Herita would 

compensate by creating potions. In the middle of a battle, she’d toss                                                    in one of her concoctions, vapors would flow from the broken vial

and confuse the vampires. It made it easier for me to terminate them.

SYRRAH:
So, she was a Seeker too?

CAMMEO:
Oh yes. We were quite the team. I hate to think how violent it all 

was back then. I’ll let her know you need to speak to her.

SYRRAH:

Please do. And thank you for your help.