Episode Sixteen: Bombs: Scene 17

“Hey.”

Kanesha was in my apartment. I wasn’t supposed to give a key to somebody who wasn’t on the lease.

I wasn’t the only person giving keys to people not on the lease. She was raiding my ice cream.

I went to get a bowl myself. “Cross of Lorraine. Can you find out who used it other than the Templars?”

“Sure.” She pulled out her laptop and got to work.

I settled down with the ice cream.

“Okay, let’s see. Equal arms or not.”

“Top arms smaller.”

“Okay, then…Knights Templar, Medieval Hungary…it’s on their coat of arms. St Euphrosyne of Polosk…a Russian Orthodox Saint”

“That sounds…that sounds like a women’s name.”

“She was an abbess. And…” Kanesha grinned. “A nerd. She ran away to become a nun because she’d rather hang out in a library than get married.”

I laughed a bit. “Doesn’t seem likely she’s connected to this, does it.”

“No. Finally…the French resistance used the symbol, because it’s associated with Lorraine, which was what the Germans invaded first.”

I nodded. “Right. I don’t see any good leads. Except this Euphrosyne woman.”

“Which still seems unlikely. A librarian?”

I considered that. “Would be good cover for studying large amounts of supernatural lore. But these women seem to be more worried about fighting bad guys than studying them. And a librarian wouldn’t be that ignorant. If it is Euphrosyne, she should send some angels to beat them up for her.”

Kanesha laughed. “Well…”

“William was sort of implying the real Templars wouldn’t be too pleased about the symbol being used by women, but if they can say it’s something else…”

I tailed off.

“Then they’ll probably back down. Euphrosyne. Never heard of her until now. I’ll do some more research.”

I had a feeling we were missing something, but if it wasn’t something Kanesha had found yet…then it was probably too obscure for them to be using.

“I think I’m going to start looking again tomorrow.”

“Good, because I have something for us.” She grinned and tugged out a DVD case from her bag.

“Ooh.”

“Original Buffy movie. It seemed appropriate.”

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