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Sam asked her, “Where are Pete and Wendy?”

“I sent theht you’d want to hear this in private You can decide later if you want to tell them”

“Okay” Remi replied

“Please tell me you haven’t found a bottle full of liquid Ebola,” Sam said

“No”

“Then what?”

“I’m not sure where to start”

“Wherever you’d like,” Saently

She pursed her lips, thinking for a few moments, then said, “First of all, that syot no idea what it means Sorry”

“It’s okay, Selma Go on”

“Let es and the latch are brass, and the wood is from a species of beech tree found in only a few places in the world The biggest concentration is in the Pyrenees Mountains of southern France and northern Spain

“As for the wrapping inside, that could be a discovery unto itself Iton how all of this dates, the earliest European example of oilskin It’s calfskin—six layers of it—soaked in linseed oil The outer two layers are dried out and slightly molded, but the interior four are in perfect condition

“The glass is fairly reh quality and quite thick, alh I’m not inclined to test the theory, I’m fairly certain it could stand up to a fair amount of abuse”

“The label on the bottle: hand-tooled leather, glued to the glass as well as bound at the top and bottos on the label were etched direcly into the leather, then filled in with ink—a very rare ink, in fact It’s a mixture of Aeonium arboreum ‘Schwartzkopf’—”

“English, please,” Remi said