Slick avoidance of answering. "No. It's not." Lily was. Maybe I'd arrange for Poppy to meet the good physicist and let her see what she was really up against. I bricked up my sorrow, adding it to the pile of emotions I had no desire to examine or experience.
"There was one last thing I found," I said. "The symbol of the Mesopotamian sun-god Shamash had four straight and four wavy rays. Louis' has both, too. Could Samson be Mesopotamian?"
"Shamash was a god, not a demon. But that sun symbol was present in Babylonian and Assyrian cultures." Drio chugged half his water back in one go.
"That might explain Samson's preference for Semitic-looking women. Personal attraction stemming from point of origin," I said.
"Bhenchod!" Rohan swore, grabbing the laptop away from Drio. The anticipation in the room was palpable as he looked something up. With a shout of victory, Rohan turned the screen around for us to see it.