Baby Oil

"Ding-ling-ling."

Monica's phone rang. She took it from her jacket pocket and answered it. As she spoke, she began arguing with the caller.

Pomona withdrew her gaze and looked at the two motorcycle-riding thieves ahead of them. They were on the phone too.

Muggle technology was becoming more advanced. They were growing more like wizards, and at the same time, they increasingly wanted to understand what had happened during the dark Middle Ages.

Besides vampires, the Church also kept historical records. Before the Chinese invention of papermaking reached Europe, papyrus and parchment were used to record writing.

The difference between parchment and ordinary paper made from plant fibers lay in its raw material: skin. Parchment was generally believed to be made from the skin of sheep or other animals, stretched to its limit on a wooden frame, scraped thin with a knife, then dried into sheets.

Parchment was not leather. Leather was made by soaking raw animal hides in limewater to remove hair and fat, then soaking them in tannin or acid to cause a chemical reaction that altered the fiber structure of the original hide.

Parchment underwent the same limewater treatment to remove hair and fat, but afterward it was stretched as tightly as possible on a special wooden frame, dried while physically stretched, and fixed in that state. No chemical means were used to alter the fibers.

For every scroll of parchment obtained, a living creature died. The Church used papyrus, a plant material, to record its writing.

In Zodiac's twelfth letter, he had written that he would tie up several of them—the slaves—and throw them onto an ant hill, then watch them scream, convulse, and writhe.

Children often burned ants for fun. Many people had done things like that: catching snails and tossing them into fire, trapping