All gathered, invited by Sir Fitzwilliam, at the family estate, lured there by promises of an exciting night with mysteries, good company and a seance for entertainment. It was a mottled collection of more or less renowned individuals, from the clergy to Russian nobility.

 

After the dinner had barely settled, Sir Fitzwilliam took his sisters gloved hands, despite her protests, then proceeded to firmly rip off her gloves, exposing a pair of bleeding palms. “A stigmata!” he proclaimed, asking the assembled people of the significance of such a phenomenon.

Then the man claimed that all religions were connected; that all of them had a grain of truth and between the lines of these truths lay a being called “Tawba”. An ancient statue was brought forth, containing the symbol of this powerful creature, whose symbol had also guarded the doors of an Egyptian tomb.

 

Next, the guests were presented with a document that carried said symbol, as well, and one that was acquired from the Vatican libraries. The crowd was tasked with solving a puzzle hidden in its imagery. After said document went through a transformation, an angel became whole, and a three-part message was revealed:

“where serpents face noble truth”

“IHS”

“6 rules their game has”.
Curiously enough, the saintly figure holds in its hands a book, facing the viewer, displaying nothing but blank pages. Cunning people may very well know that at first, The mythological Serpent was not “Satan” as many believe. but instead, an angel that led Eve astray. The serpent was merely “the most clever of all of the beasts of the field that YHWH, God, had created.” But then the New Testament was written.

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When the seances began, revelations of a personal nature were made, to much affectation of some, while others scoffed at the preposterous idea. Finally, at the zenith of the evening, the statuette of Tawba was used as a focus for the last seance of the night. The medium screamed and cursed, as if something took hold of her. While she was helped up afterwards, the servants whisked away both the statue, and the candles that had mysteriously begun to bleed.

 

The spirit seemed to take hold of the crippled Olympian athlete, as she shouted that she could “feel it” and tried to walk once more. Sadly, that ended in tears, as she could no further walk than Humpty Dumpty could be put back together again. A cunning thief used this as a distraction to steal the statue from Sir Fitzwilliam’s study.

Ending the night, a plea was made by the Police Commissioner, for the artefact’s return, as “it surely was simply misplaced”, knowing fully well that he could not accuse such a gathering of theft.