Birthday?

"If that possessing evil spirit really is the Red Angel Medici, then given his former status, he should exert a powerful attraction on nearby Beyonders and Beyonder Characteristics of the same Pathway. And he certainly wouldn't hide that power. He'd use it to obtain Beyonder Characteristics..."

Angel considered this as she carefully sealed the two items behind Walls of Spirituality, placed them in a box that could block spirituality, then returned the box to the Mirror World. Three layers of protection.

Whoever the evil spirit is, we've made preparations... Leonard will alert the Red Gloves and have them focus on tracking the spirit's actions and goals. That should soon force him to use that Sealed Artifact, and that will leave more traces...

Angel let out a long breath and stopped turning the matter over in her mind, lest the Sealed Artifact, far away on the Southern Continent but still able to sense such things, notice her.

Instead, she picked up the letter Trissy had sent with Wensa yesterday afternoon and read it again.

It was brief, mainly recounting how Trissy had used Shermane to approach Viscount Stratford over the past few days.

The plan and persona built around the middle-aged viscount's psychological profile had worked. Shermane's youthful beauty after becoming a Witch, coupled with her slightly awkward manner as a woman, had caught his attention. By last weekend, Stratford had "run into" her twice and had casually bought an extra ticket to Romeo and Juliet at the Kingdom Grand Theater, hoping to invite her along.

Of course the author is Roselle Gustav... Angel pursed her lips at the familiar name.

Emperor Roselle had been so prolific that Angel had once been afraid to quote anything famous she remembered from her previous life, for fear of looking foolish when someone asked,