Conscience does make cowards of us all. I Lucy remains in a coma. Chise replaces Lucy’s magic with her own. Concerned about her arm Chise visits Cartaphilus who assures her killing to protect herself is natural, but is gleeful Chise has started down a dark path. Lucy’s brother Seth visits. Lucy awakens and Chise sees her dreams of a massacre, and spiders. Philomena asks Chise to be friends. College librarians discover a forbidden book has been replaced with a forgery, the Testament of Carnamagos, a Grimoire so dangerous reading the words can kill the reader. Elias, having read the book once, reveals it concerns how to steal magic, create or kill immortals, and necromancy...