[u][b]The Meeting Room[/b][/u]

The tattooed man, followed Ariel back into the meeting room. She might feel his black eyes on her backside. When he entered the room he did not sit at the table. He stood against the back wall opposed to the projector. He crossed his arms and watched, saying nothing. 

The screen zoomed in upon the ancient sword. "It is the weapon that was used to murder the girl on the alter. The blood matches. If this same sword was used in an earlier ritual, like Wolfe describes, this group may have had this sword for some time."

She narrowed her eyes at it, as if distrusting the object. "Something about this sword must be important to them. If the ritual went wrong the first time, shouldn't the group try to use different tools the second time? Instead they used the same sword. I agree with your intuition , Wolfe." Rozalind seemed to assume that his 'bad feeling' was about the sword.