AURELIA

The dagger doesn't detect any lies as the watery woman explains everything that happened:

- The Water womans name is Kelpsie, and she is a Water Nymph
- Her family is poor and she'd supplemented her income by doing the ocassasional bit of theft for hire.
- Recently she was approached by several PTT employees (a floating Goat Skull that called itself Hyborean and a speckled blue alien called Thriloth) who said they had a high paid job for her.
- They took her to PTT headquarters where she met a man who looked almost exactly like Vengeance (although she concedes that that one was possibly a bit older than the one you know). He had the ability to use some kind of black energy she didn't recognise.
- She was commissioned to steal the three books, and was paid enough to set her up for life, but was warned that if she spoke of it ever, she and her mother would be murdered.