Jacque Durant´s working place is a two-room office, comprehending a waiting room and an examination room. The examination room consists of an examination table and the doctor’s desk, which is cluttered with books, papers, and bottles. The room also displays the doctor´s library, microscope, diplomas, pictures of eminent professional friends and teachers, and other things that are associated with his medical studies and career.
There´s a whole skeleton in plain view, probably because it exhibits Durant´s knowledge and interest in anatomy. The impression that a patient must have upon entering here is trust. Trust about human domination over any possible form of physical discomfort.
The waiting room has a few chairs and a spittoon for the tobacco chewing.
Miss Sullivan is a sturdy and sullen woman, with the same rough manner as seafarers. She medicates the wounds and applies less improvised bandages.
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He obviously iquire the group about what happened. It does not happen every day that strangers come to him in such a state to ask for medication.
When they are alone, the investigators are able to look closely at Martin Thompson's notes.
The notebook is pocket-size, with dog-eared pages and drawn hastily in the margins. Notes have been written in looping and convoluted handwriting. There are contains confusing notes. They are difficult to interpret at first read, but they look like procedures to be followed to do a kind of spell. Martin hiself has done a worjk of interpretation, prbably based on other sources. According to his references, the original text was written in runic language, but not specific ancient work is named explicitely.
One of the procedures talks about a seal, but no specification is provided. It activates something that is related to a sign. A warped, five-pointed star with a flaming eye in its center. The other spell is called Enchant pipe. The procedure requires a flute and a blood sacrifice not specified. The enchant is used to imbue power into a flute. Creates a set of pipes suitable in the casting of other spells. The instrument must steep in fresh, warm human blood for two hours.
One page has a drawing representing two globes of an unspecified fluid substance. A human hand that grabs them from below, while the liquid drips down. Under the drawing, Martin wrote.
“Something related to the indescribable and unimaginable horror… Unknown and Untranslatable words.”
One page of the notebook are not about spells. In one, Martin wrote
“Tropical year, August 23 - September 22."
He also wrote a symbol: a letter "M" with a loop at its end. This is a Zodiac Sign, the Sign of Virgo.
Finally, a letter is interposed among the notebook pages.
It is dated few days before he left with the fishermen
May 5, 1927
Dear Martin,
I won´t tell you where I'm writing from, because I'm wandering like a refugee. My mind cannot help but think about Greyton and all things I've left behind. I´m writing to inform you of something important. Where I am now, I have access to books, they gave me a clearer view of certain things. Don´t venture in search of K’n-yeil. Don´t do that. The waters of the Bay of Fundy are cursed.
You were right. The source of everything lies over there. But, whatever tries to navigate close to K’n-yeil is inevitably destroyed by the sea forces. Don´t sacrifice your life unnecessarily, at least not right now.
Your,
Jason
