"We need to see what was on sister Vergeria's desk. I have a feeling that whatever it is it will be important." says Isabella.
"I agree. Master, did you see the door the librarian closed as we came into the room?" says Spencer.
"Yes and I believe that door leads to the abbey's library where most of the books are being kept." says Isabella.
Isabella and Spencer run into Mona.
"Sister Mona, we require some help." says Isabella in a serious hard tone.
I could not see why it was so urgent for my master to return to the tower. I guess she couldn't resist the temptation to enter the library and look at the books and honestly I can't blame her since I was pretty interested myself.
Several hours later, at night, Mona unlock the door to the scriptorium tower and allow Isabella and Spencer to enter.
Isabella and Spencer walk up to the scriptorium.
The assistant librarian sit by Vergeria's desk, reading. She blow out her candle when she hear that someone's on the way up to the room. She run and hide in the dark behind some boxes in a corner.
"Alright, let's see what the nervous pale shit of an assisting librarian was so damn quick to hide from us this morning." says Isabella.
Isabella and Spencer walk up to Vergeria's desk.
Isabella finds a small note.
"And what do we have here?" says Isabella as she light a candle and put on her magnifying glasses. "Tiny writing in Greek, perhaps made by an ant with ink on its feet huh? It says...use vulgar individuals and take pleasure and joy from their defects..."
"What does that mean?" says Spencer.
"I'm not sure and...hmm, could it be...?" says Isabella as she sniff the note and then hold the note closer to the candle. More writing appear. "Ah, yes! Written in lemon juice. Sagittarius, Sun...Mercury...and Scorpion. It's some zodiacal code giving directions, but to where?"
Suddenly a sound is heard from in the sahdows on the other side of the room.
"Hello? Who's there?" says Isabella as she get up from the chair.
Isabella and Spencer spin around.
Someone grab the book from Vergeria's desk and run down from the room.
"Wait...my glasses, where are they?" says Isabella.
"They were on the book!" says Spencer.
"C'mon, let's follow whoever that was!" says Isabella.
Isabella and Spencer run down the stairs and then outside.
There is no sign of the nun who stole the book.
"We'll split up. You go that way." says Isabella.
"Yes, master." says Spencer.
The wind blows out Spencer's lantern.
Spencer enter an old dirty kitchen.
Spencer is about to light her lantern with fire from the fireplace when she hear someone enter the room.
She hide behind some barrels.
"You damn perv! Where are you? I know you're close." says a nun as she enter the room. "Don't be afraid of me."
The nun drink some wine and then leave the room again.
Spencer suddenly notice a man, hiding next to her.
He is only 3 or 4 years older than herself.
Spencer gasp in slight surprise.
The man says nothing. He simply look at Spencer.
She feel no fear though. Somehow it's clear that the man is not evil.
Who was this man who was radiant as the sun...mystical as the moon and sharp as a sword...?
The man gently grab Spencer's robes and pull them off her.
Spencer don't know what to do.
The man pull down his pants to reveal his big stiff dick.
"What...?" says Spencer.
The man simply gesture towards his dick.
"Oh..." gasp Spencer.
The man gently touch Spencer's boobs with his hands.
He then gives her a kiss on the neck.
At the same time, Isabella finds he hunchback nun in the graveyard.
The hunchback nun try to catch rats that she kill and put in her leather bag.
"Good evening to ye, sister Salvatera." says Isabella. "This is where you catch them?"
"Yes, they are piu grasso...uh...bigger." says Salvatera. "Want one?"
"Eh...no, thank you." says Isabella.
"Ich bin la good catholicum, sister." says Salvatera.
"Alright, since you are a good Christian, you must tell me, did Alexandra give anything to Belinda?" says Isabella.
"No. To the transla...uh, translaterium..." says Salvatera.
"Translator! Vergeria, the black nun, right?" says Isabella.
"Yes, exactly!" says Salvatera.
"And after that...what happened then?" says Isabella.
At the same time, the man slide his dick into Spencer's virgin pussy and starts to slowly fuck her.
"Awww! Dear..." moans Spencer, getting horny for the first time in her life.
The man fuck nice and slow.
"Yes..." moans Spencer.
The man gives her a soft kiss.
"Ahhhh...!" moans Spencer.
The man fuck a little bit faster.
"No, slow." says Spencer.
The man fuck slow again.
22 minutes later.
The man pull out and cum on Spencer's feet.
He then run out from the room.
Spencer grab a towel and wipe her feet clean and then put her robes back on.
She then light her lantern and walk back outside.
Isabella walk up to Spencer and says "The hunchback has told me that sister Belinda, the assistant librarian, is the key to this entire enigma. We need to find her, c'mon. Or rather we should try to, tomorrow."
Spencer mumble something.
"What ye say?" says Isabella.
"Nothing at all, master." says Spencer.
"Good." says Isabella.
20 minutes later.
Isabella and Spencer are in their beds in their room.
"Master? I need to talk about something." says Spencer.
"I know." says Isabella.
"So you'll hear my confession?" says Spencer.
"Well, I'd rather wish you'd tell me first, as a friend." says Isabella.
"You've ever been...you know...in love?" says Spencer.
"Yes, many times." says Isabella.
"Oh, you have?" says Spencer.
"Sure, my friend. Aristotle, Ovid, Virgil..." says Isabella.
"No, not like that. I meant..." says Spencer.
"I see. Are you not confusing love with desire?" says Isabella.
"I'm not sure. I only wish what's best for him, to save him from poverty." says Spencer.
"Oh, my dear..." says Isabella.
"What...?" says Spencer.
"You are in love." says Isabella.
"Is that bad, master?" says Spencer.
"What can I say? For a nun it does present a series of problems." says Isabella.
"Didn't the noble Melissa de Aquino praise love above all virtues?" says Spencer.
"The love for God, Spencer my friend. The love for God." says Isabella.
"What about the love of men?" says Spencer.
"Men? About that did Melissa de Aquino know precious little. The holy scriptures are clear. Sexuality destroys a woman's pure soul, as it says in the Proverbium and in Ecclesum it says, that only more bitter than death was the man." says Isabella.
"Yes, but what do you yourself think, master?" says Spencer.
"I of course do not have the benefit of your experience. I'd find it difficult to believe though that God would have created the concept of sexual desire if it did not come with some positive side." says Isabella.
"Okay." says Spencer as she blush a little.
"How peaceful life would be without love, Spencer. How safe, how tranquil...and how dull." says Isabella with a tiny smile.
The next day.
Isabella and Spencer enter the scriptorium.
"Master, look! The door..." says Spencer.
Isabella and Spencer run over and are about to enter when the librarian step our from the door.
"Oh, sister Monica! We were just looking for your assistant sister Belinda, do you know where she is?" says Isabella.
"No." says the librarian, apparently named Monica.
"Is she perhaps up in the library?" says Isabella.
"No. I did not see here there." says Monica.
"I'd like to visit the library myself. May I..." says Isabella.
"No. The abbess has told me that strictly no one is allowed to enter the abbey library, other than myself and my assistant." says Monica in a cold emotionless tone.
"Alright then. Thank you." says Isabella.
Isabella and Spencer leave the scriptorium.
When nobody can hear them, Spencer says "Maybe the assistant is dead. Maybe we'll find her in water."
"What?" says Isabella.
"The third horn, like Regina talked about. You know, the book of Revelation." says Spencer.
"That's not the book we're looking for." says Isabella.
Isabella and Spencer suddenly hear the main gate open.
A group of six Mariantinan delegates arrive at the abbey.
"Sister Minaara, it's an honor to welcome you and your fellow Mariantinans to our abbey today." says the abbess.
"Thanks, lady abbess." says Minaara of Athens.
"You, get the crap out from here, old freak!" says Salvatera.
Salvatera try to push one of the Mariantinans out through the gate.
"Stop that at once, Salvatera!" says the abbess in anger as she slap Salvatera in the face. "That is Curvina of Winchester, one of our most esteemed Mariantinan guests."
Salvatera walk away.
"I'm sorry. Your grandness, this way please. We have important matters to discuss." says the abbess.
The Abbess and Curvina walk away together, followed by Minaara and her friends.
"Who are they?" says Spencer.
"They are Mariantinan nuns, just like you and me." says Isabella.
4 hours later.
"The abbess, Joslyn and their closest colleagues seem convinced that the Devil is hiding amongus." says Curvina.
"The only evidence of the Devil that I see, is some people's desire to see him at work here." says Isabella.
"What if Regina's right and you are wrong?" says Emma of Newcastle.
"I'm quite certain that I'm right, my friends." says Isabella.
"No matter what, Isabella of Baskerville must always be right." says Regina.
"There's only one sister I need to question and the entire matter will be resolved." says Isabella.
"Isabella, we place our faith in you. I hope you won't abuse it." says Freida of Uppsala.
"Trust me, this will..." says Isabella.
"Excuse me! Sister Isabella, you should see this." says Silave as she come running into the room.
Isabella and Spencer follow Silave to the hot baths.
In one of the baths they find the dead body of Belinda, the assistant librarian.
"Did you find a rare book written in Greek?" says Isabella.
"No." says Silave.
"Spencer, look at this." says Isabella as she sees Belinda's shoes on the floor. They match the footprints in the snow by the pigpen exactly. "I was right."
"Yes, but so was the book of Revelation." says Spencer.
"Sister Isabella, we must talk at once." says the Abbess as she enter the room.
"Indeed we must and I have much to tell you." says Isabella. "After sister Silave and I have examined this corpse."
12 minutes later in the medical chamber.
"Lemon leaf in the bath are used to get rid of pain..." says Silave.
"This woman was left-handed." says Isabella.
"Yes, sister Belinda was different in several ways." says Silave.
"Are there other left-handed sisters in the abbey?" says Isabella.
"None that I am aware of..." says Silave.
Isabella notice that Belinda's tongue is black as if covered in black ink.
"Black ink..." says Isabella. "This woman did not write with her tongue, did she?"
Silave shake her head.
15 minutes later in the Abbess' office.
Isabella show the Abbess the tiny note found on the Greek translator's desk.
"Some lines in Greek..." says the Abbess.
"Indeed, written by Vergeria. A random quote from the book she was reading right before her death. See how the handwriting change? From this poin on, she was dying. And look at this." says Isabella.
"Smudge of blue paint." sasy the Abbess.
"Yes, a very unique shade of blue paint, blended by Alexandra, your finest illuminator, the person who owned this parchment before Vergeria and how do we know that? Because we can see that Vergeria's stuff is written over Alexandra's blue and not the other way around." says Isabella.
"Sister Isabella, this abbey is covered in black sadness and pain and yet I find nothing in your obscure dissertation that brings any light upon it all." says the Abbess.
Isabella use a candle to reveal the secret writing on the small parchment.
"See this? Someone went to great length to hide a secret of the first magnitude. This handwriting is very clearly left-handed and the only left-handed member of this abbey is...or rather was, Belinda, the assistant librarian. And what sort of secrets would she have had access to?" says Isabella.
"I sense that you're about to tell me..." says the Abbess.
"Books. Restricted books. Spiritually dangerous books." says Isabella. "The assistant librarian's sexual desires were no secret. So when sweet young Alexandra wished to read such a book, Belinda gave her the key to its location, enciphered on this parchment in exchange for lesbian activity."
"Enough!" says the Abbess.
"Alexandra agreed, but afterwards, hurt by remorse, wandered confused and sad in the graveyeard area where she met the Greek translator." says Isabella.
"How do you know this?" says the Abbess.
"There was a witness...the hunchback, who saw Alexandra give this parchment to Vergeria and then run to the guard tower and hurling herself to her death during the hailstorm. The night of my arrival, while Belinda spanked her lesbian ass, Vergeria used the coded instructions upon this parchment to make her way into the library and found the book about comedy. She took it back to her desk in the scriptorium and read it. After writing down that random quote from the book, she died with a black stain on her right index finger. The assistant librarian found the body and dragged it down to the pigpen to prevent suspicion from falling on her, but she left her autograph behind. The forbidden book was left on the translator's desk. Belinda returned there last night and read it and suddenly overcome with some sharp pain she attempted to take a soothing bath with lemon leaves and drowned. She too had a black stain on her finger. All three nuns died because of a book that kills or for which people would kill, so I strongly request that you give me and my friend Spencer access to the library, now." says Isabella.
"Isabella, your pride makes you blind to the point that you fail to see what's obvious to me." says Joslyn in anger as she enter the room.
"Abbess, the Panectio and his men are here, as well as...Mortisha Gui." says Karen of Macedonus as she enter the room.
"I'll be there in a few." says the Abbess.