Editing TheStarsAreRight:BaileySessionApril2008 (section)

=== Feb 16 ===

The next morning, we went to talk to the local vicar, Thomas Goldfield, to learn more about Donal and his god-daughter.  He said that Donal's god-daughter was a Lydia Strickly, age 16-17 and currently at a boarding school in Switzerland.  Mark Strickly, her father, was a well-to-do man in London and good friends with Donal.  Mary Kate, her mother, was a local girl.  

Henrik and Rebecca took the afternoon train to London to visit Mr. Strickly.  They checked into a hotel (in two rooms), and visited Mr. Strickly's house, Henrik giving his card.  As they prepared to meet, Rebecca offered to use her emotion-manipulating power to make him friendly and open to them.  Henrik agreed that it would be best.  Strickly turned out to be a gray-haired industrialist and opened up immediately under Rebecca's power.  He said that Donal had been in New York for the last two months, working for a corporation called "Penthius".  The corporation was searching for a ''scientific'' solution for the impending apocalypse, based on containing the incursions of outsiders while allowing them to feed on humans in limited quantities.  Penthius is in the phase of setting up a laboratory and starting "field trials".  Strickly was looking for importing their methods to a similar setup in England, if they were successful.  Henrik got an address in New York for Donal.  Strickly, though, said that Donal had a "one track mind" -- that track being "to learn what he can about controlling these things".  Henrik described some about the French and Spanish groups and their methods, showing Strickly the life weapon he had been given -- which Strickly was interested but unsurprised by.  

Meanwhile, back in Penzance, the others had arranged for dowsing on the objects they had.  Laura's few objects of her godfather traced back to Donal in New York.  The letters, however, traced back to a non-living person.  The stain on the wall of Donal's house traced back to a different partially-dead person.  

Henrik and Rebecca took their leave of Strickly, still quite friendly.  They went back to the hotel, and reported to Carl and the others via mental radio.  Henrik wanted to have some sort of communication with Penthius immediately, but Carl said that this should be put off until they knew more.