As Tamra reached the bottom of the ladder, the man fell to Takao's blade.  She let her lights hover over his body as she strode over and knelt beside him.  She then pulled a small symbol of Wee Jas from around her neck and clasped it as she positioned the man's hands over his wound.  She closed her eyes.  "Go in peace.  Soon you will be in The Stern Lady's embrace, and she will decide your fate."  She kissed the symbol as she replaced it around her neck and stood up, taking in the scenery of the room as she did so.

She spied the totem that Charlie spoke of and took a few steps toward it.  Surely a book like this held some sort of arcane knowledge undiscovered.  But as Charlie implied, it could also be some sort of trap for the unwary.  If she ran her hand over the cover, perhaps she could detect any magic that it emanated...