I said, slamming shut the dusty tome and added it to one of the piles stacked haphazardly around the table.“You should be more careful with those books. They are more than two hundred years old. Great care has been taken to preserve them,” Ian said in that annoyingly superior tone of his.I shot him a dirty look, which he missed because he was busy making notes. “What have you found so far?”He scribbled a couple of more words then looked up. “Not much. Most of the references to Voodoo I found were fictional, even those that were supposedly factual. The people of the last century before the cataclysm had vivid imaginations and little regard for scientific fact. The theories 20th and 21st century norms had about magic and paranormal beings amazes me. Most of the pre-cataclysm magical books I’ve studied were council approved texts that were not for the mainstream norm public. I find these very interesting. I will have to do more research into the fiction and myths of the pre-cataclysm age.”I rolled my eyes.
