It was, actually, a few times! I still have it, since I imagine a lot of the websites still exist. Just not all of them. But government ones, like military ones, for sure.

The oddest place I purchased a book from was a garden nursery we'd gone to for dog food. We were in the UK for my sister's wedding, and were staying with the groom's parents for a few nights to get to know them. It was the only place they could get the large bag of the kind of food they bought, I think.

Anyway, there were other things sold there, which was strange to me. I found a book on researching family history online, and since I was volunteering in church archives at the time, I bought it. This was nearly 10 years ago, so it's probably wildly out of date by now, lol.

That's who I thought originally, but isn't he supposed to be Nick? And Fiona's confident that it isn't him.

Okay, so I don't have many books on religion - outside of The Bible itself - but I can absolutely search my books on mythology. I'll also be at a library tomorrow, so if you want me to search for anything there, let me know. Either the being naturally looks beautiful, or it's a shapeshifter, which should narrow things down somewhat. Less so with the polytheistic deities - and of course, standards of beauty are different for everyone - but I think that you might want to look into who created the creatures of the woods. If you can somehow contact them, they'll be more interested in preserving the creatures.

I hope Cas is okay. I want to hear more about why he left his job.

Your father is a horrible human being, and rest assured that not all Christians are like that. I think Nick has appeared to him, pretending to be the angel he once was, to get the location of the entity out of you in some other way.

If you like historical crime, there are the Amelia Peabody books by Elizabeth Peters (set in Egypt primary, turn of the century) and the Father Cadfael books by Ellis Peters (he's a monk). Agatha Christie's books are also generally excellent to read, quite devious, and they're set around WW2-ish. She wrote for decades. They were contemporary at the time, but are definitely more historical now.

Eh, I'm just suggesting possibilities. Sounds like you hopefully won't have to do more than find and point, so to speak. But it might help you to find them if you know what you're looking for. Personally, I'd have asked for Licorice to help track down... whatever it is.

Ooh! That's a good point.

I wonder... If the child of a human and an angel or a human and a demon is born, they're supposed to be pretty powerful. I wonder if an angel and a demon could produce a child even more powerful? Maybe that's what you're searching for? Or perhaps a deity from outside one of the monotheistic religions? Neither holy nor unholy, perhaps? Or it could be something created by the imaginations of humans, which has eventually taken form due to the power of belief?

There's a lot to consider here, and I only hope you're able to win Jacek back without evil taking over the entire world. Good luck, Fiona. We're all pulling for you!

I CALLED IT! I SAID IT WAS THE FATHER!

Oh, uh, I mean, I'm sorry, Fiona. But having had a shitty father myself, I can spot them pretty easily. Listen, I'd write more, but I've gotta go to work. I hope you're doing okay.

Though I don't actually envy Fiona having to look after that place. Sure, it's nice to have a house without a mortgage, but it seems to be more trouble than its worth.

My knowledge of true crime is coming back to bite me in the butt with this. I can already guess enough of what Jeremy might've done, and why.

Poor Fiona. I'm so sorry you're having to go through this. But we're all still here for you, and you'll get Jacek back. I refuse to believe this will all end in tears.

>Well, I picked a bad time to have soup for dinner

Reminds me of when I watched 'Sweeney Todd' with my aunt, and it turned out she was going to have a meat pie for dinner for the first time in years. Oops.

If you weren't trying to keep hidden from the world, I'd ask for your address so I can send a get well soon card to Aleksei. I make greeting cards as a hobby, and I'm bound to have a couple of get well soon cards stashed somewhere. If not, I could make them.

I don't suppose you could get a hula hoop and carve pentagrams into it, then throw it over the Bies to trap it?

At least they're probably always kept hot. *shrugs*

Ah, okay. We never really had steaks when I was a kid; we couldn't afford it. Then I became a vegetarian. I'm not even sure that cheesesteaks are a thing in Australia.

What's a cheesesteak? Is it just a steak with cheese melted on top or something?

>Would love to have that power of his actually, to move without moving. Life would be so much easier, hehe.

Commutes would barely exist if we could all do that. AMAZING.

Oh shit.

Okay, normally I'd pray for you, but that might actually end up being counter-productive in this case. I'm still here if you need someone to talk to, though, okay? I've got work tomorrow, but I'll make time to reply to any messages.

I'm really sorry you had to see that. Do you feel that it's better to know? You might be regretting it now, but one day you might feel relieved to have that question answered.

Anyway, I hope you get back to our world safely. And I still think you should see if you can wear wedding dresses from different cultures, in case you're able to run more easily in them, or at least have a different colour to wear.

I feel we could almost name it after Stockholm Syndrome, but without the negative connotations.

Narnia Syndrome?

Ooh, I'd forgotten that! Well spotted.

You seem to post at really different times of the day. I hope you're getting enough sleep, Fiona. I'm worried about you.

Oh no. Hey, we're all here for you, okay? If I knew where you were located, I'd try to help, but I'm not experienced in this sort of thing anyway, so I'd probably be more of a liability. Would prayer help? I can pray.

Did you know that your soul would wander from your body when you slept? If not, your mother really should've warned you. You were only a kid; your father should've been keeping watch instead.

If the blackmailer asked for money, I would've suspected your brother, since you mentioned that he has frequent money problems. But I doubt he's holding your soul hostage. How would someone even do that? I still think he's possibly sabotaging your investigation. Either that, or he's just a moron who thinks that good cop-bad cop is the only way to question people. Did he ever want to be a cop? Because that could explain his unhelpful behaviour during the questioning.

I'm thinking that Jacek might be the one who's leaked this information online, possibly out of revenge. Do you think that's likely? Would you recognise him if he was in disguise as one of your security team?

You know, you and your brother going to the mill reminded me of the story 'The Mill on the Floss'. I haven't read it, but I saw an adaptation of it a few months ago. I hope you have a happier ending than the characters, though.

Trees do technically have heartbeats, or at least they have these veins inside which allow water to travel through them and keep them hydrated. You can actually listen to them with something like a stethoscope. I'd be interested to hear what these trees say.

I'm starting to suspect that the trees might contain the spirits of the people who've died to the fae spiders at Christmas. Burning the trees might allow the spirits to escape; but what happens to the trees which have died in the past?

Anyway, if anyone's interested in learning more about trees, Dame Judi Dench did a documentary about them, and she actually got to hear the 'heartbeat' of a tree. There might be clips of it on Youtube?