"How long has it been there?"

"I guess... someone must have broken into the plane in LA...? I do not like this."

"Christ."

..........................Anemone is going to check under the other seats just in case.

She does not find any other bombs.

"We need so much more security."

"We didn't leave anything important on the plane, did we, there's nothing they could have stolen while they were here - "

She checks whether they have all their possessions because it's something to do instead of standing around stupidly thinking about the plane exploding.

Zoe closes the door.

Oswald has a silent motionless unending panic attack for the rest of the trip.

...It ebbs and flows. But he was trying to sleep forever and he can't now.

Frank thinks people should NOT blow up his plane.

Lev thinks this is pretty much what he would have expected.

Anemone is gonna... curl up and then check her gun again in case there are any unpleasant surprises waiting for them when they land.

Mordred starts writing something. He doesn't give any indication of what it is but he's working on it very intensely.

Zoe spends the rest of the plane flight trying to console herself about Carrie and Lacie by being proud of getting rid of the bomb so that no MORE people died.

Mrs. Winston-Rogers is happy to rent the investigators a small office at a discreet building with many armed guards.

nice!

...as long as no one infiltrates the armed guards.

Oswald still has the rosary. He hasn't let it off his person since the heist.

Zoe has the stone.

...honestly they should probably just leave the stone on top of the books, so that the books don't get any ideas.

Zoe is a little loathe to give it up but does agree that the stone does seem like it was associated with the books in particular and should probably stay with them.

Zoe does feel like she needs the stone but doesn't feel like she should feel like she needs the stone. And it was warding books before and now they have even more books that probably need warding. She puts the stone with the books and determines to get herself her a protective talisman of her very own.

"Mr. Aarons thought that the eye glyphs were also protective in other forms, right? Should we make some of our own?"

Mordred contemplates the logistics of staying in the discreet office instead of at his own apartment and then decides it is more likely to draw attention to the office than to keep his family safe. "Probably a good plan."

"We should ask him about how they work. He might know how to make them work right."

Once he is no longer delirious from medication withdrawal, Mr. Aarons says that they are a protective sigil in any form, but that it is generally believed that the protective sigil has to be magically "charged" before it will be effective. He does not know the appropriate ritual to charge the sigil.

"One more thing to research, I guess. I never expected hunting down the occult to involve so much reading."

Oswald, uh, should probably not be staying at his apartment. He can move the stuff he's attached to somewhere else.