Fortunately, the visitor knew to be quiet. Quiz seemed unable to relax, but she did, turning back to her reading. The book was in a language she was only somewhat competent with; she had to keep consulting the dictionary at her elbow to make it through, but the faded letters described a ritual with some points of eerie similarity to the murder, so she kept at it.
Turning the page, she found the depiction of a ring of symbols, winding in and out of each other. She squinted at it for a few moments, attempting to make out detail long washed away by the tides of time. Not the same as the sketch in her room, no. But the shapes of the linked circles were not dissimilar. She spread her hand across the page and picked up her pen, making a notation of the book's title and catalog number before beginning to sketch. It took some time to make an accurate reproduction of the image, but she kept at it. Noting the source - eighth century Valendian - she flipped through the last few pages, then set the book aside and chose another which she thought might give her more in-depth information about the same time period.