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Chapter 94

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.