They all felt around in their clothes and finally Paidia produced one which had been lying at the bottom of her shirt pocket. Muko seized it and lightly sketched over the writing using the side of the lead, so as to reveal some mysterious words. Unfortunately not all of the text was legible, but parts of it stood out very clearly:
'… at midnight … ancient artefact ...' and there was a strange symbol showing circular objects of different sizes with teeth connecting them together.
They were so intent on their discovery that when a voice