He picks up the jacket she drops and is compelled to breathe in her scent. She insists she no longer has the book, and that he should leave her alone. He then tracks her down to the boathouse as she returns from rowing. While Diana is out of her apartment, Matthew searches it for the missing book. The two of them later visit Oxford at Sylvia's invitation to question Gillian about what she observed. It is then revealed she knows the other man, Peter Knox, who hired a local huntsman to test Satu for suitability to join the Congregation. A witch, Satu, emerges and uses her powers to kill one of them. In Finland, two men approach a remote cottage. Sean doesn't realize that supernatural creatures exist and scoffs at people who still believe in witchcraft. She reveals that her parents were killed when she was young, on suspicion of being witches, and that she was raised by Sarah and Emily. After a long day of research, Diana goes out for drinks with Sean, a library employee. He warns her that other supernatural creatures are interested in Ashmole 782 and she won't be able to avoid notice. Diana attempts to learn more about Matthew and finds to her annoyance that he keeps showing up wherever she goes. In fact, he overheard Gillian's questioning of Diana after she ran from the library and researched her identity. He introduces himself and praises Diana's writing, claiming he recognized her from the author photo in her books. Matthew catches it as it sails through the air. The next time she is at the library, Diana accidentally uses magic to retrieve a book from a high shelf. The three vampires discuss the possibility that Ashmole 782, a book Matthew has sought for hundreds of years, has been found. After making a police report, Marcus is picked up by Matthew, who takes him to the lab and asks Miriam to run tests. He attempts to save him by turning him into a vampire, but the siring process fails. Marcus Whitmore, a vampire and medical doctor, sees one of his colleagues hit by a car. Sarah reacts combatively, but her partner Emily is more understanding of Diana's discomfort with magic. She calls her aunt Sarah to tell her about the book and her vision. Diana dreams about the book, spiders, and a web that envelops her whole body. Gillian later reports the incident to her coven leader, Sylvia, after receiving a text asking members if they felt anything strange the day of the equinox. Gillian observed Diana's reaction in the library and asks her about it, but Diana is still distressed and doesn't answer. Across town, two vampires react to the opening of the book: Matthew Clairmont, professor of biochemistry, and Miriam Shephard, his lab manager. She returns the book and runs from the library, seeing a vision of her father as she leaves. Alarmed, she puts her hand on the illustration, which burns its image into her palm. Touching the page causes the text to spread to her hand. There is barely discernible text below it, and as Diana examines it further she sees it moving and changing. An illustration of the alchemical child intrigues her. First, she observes that three pages have been cut out. Diana can tell something is unusual about the book as soon as she opens it. The archivist can't find one of them at first glance, but when she passes the shelf again, Ashmole 782 is there. At the Bodleian, Diana requests several Ashmole manuscripts. Diana's friend and fellow witch, Gillian, invites her to the local coven's equinox celebration, but Diana declines, having distanced herself from that part of her heritage. She is there to research alchemy and its place in the history of science, taking advantage of the resources at the Bodleian Library. Linda Mooreĭiana Bishop, a successful author and tenured historian at Yale, arrives at Oxford University on sabbatical. This precipitates them into conflict with the Creature world. Diana makes her choice and accepts Matthew's help. She encounters the enigmatic vampire, Matthew Clairmont, who offers to help her their mutual attraction is immediate, undeniable and inexplicable because they both know that witches and vampires are not supposed to trust each other. She is besieged and threatened and knows that to protect herself, she must uncover all the mysteries of 782. She learns that 782 has been presumed lost for a very long time and that each species of Creature desires it. She requests Ashmole 782 and as soon as she receives it she knows there is something uncanny about it, but when she opens it she is shocked. Her particular interest is alchemy and she visits Oxford to research some of Elias Ashmole's papers. Unwilling to embrace her heritage, she has immersed herself in her career as a historian. In a world where witches, vampires, and daemons live discreetly among humans, Diana Bishop is the last in one long line of distinguished witches.
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