Chapter 8

We have already documented how the arrival of Enting Morrow and Stefan Peronius Parsons caused much excitement and consternation amongst the locals. The reaction of Odham MacGuinness was one of utter astonishment. When he had sent his encrypted missive to Parsons he had been expecting  a cautious letter in reply; the extremely swift arrival of not just Parsons but also Morrow to his front door was not only unexpected but also inconvenient. An entry, ( the entry alone indicates the significance of the event - Nod being a very haphazard journal keeper) in Odham MacGuinness’ diary gives us a valuable insight into his initial feelings: “Opened the door to two thunderous looking fellows this morning. Gave me quite a fright!! Knew instantly who they were though ...PP  looks about as jolly as a dead dog under a christmas tree and M gives off a whiff of sulphur every time he moves his legs. ...Deuced inconsiderate of them turning up like this...was just going to the shops to get some victuals.”

With his trip to the shops postponed, O.M bid his visitors welcome and sat them down in his study. He must have felt uncomfortable because his diary reveals that he tried to amuse the two occultists with a series of music hall jokes and a poor attempt at juggling. “Despite all my efforts to lighten the stony silence, the buggers just glowered at me,” the diary reveals. “Finally PP said “Stop prating about you buffoon and tell us what you know about the wall” . Presumably this is what O.M did, because within an hour of their arrival  both visitors had  donned wellington boots and were trudging through the mud to the site of the dismantled Roman wall.

Once there the two Occultists pawed over the piles of bricks O.M had amassed. They were immediately attracted to the scratching’s across the surface of many of the bricks, and it was these that they  studied most intently.

Unbeknownst to Odham MacGuinness, his two imposing visitors has discovered that the secret of the wall at Aldebrec lay not in the wall as a whole but within each of it’s bricks. Ancient Sigils had been etched on each and every brick at Aldebrec, and these sigils somehow had the effect of creating a powerful magical chain of protection that enveloped the wall and made it impervious to the ravages of time. Standing amongst the old bricks from the Roman wall and studying the peculiar markings upon them, Parsons and Morrow, mistakenly thought the Brick Odes that Odham MacGuinness had painstakingly carved on each and every brick were also some form of ancient cuneiform that the gardener had some esoteric knowledge of. Suddenly feeling they had greatly underestimated their host, Parsons and Morrow’s attitude changed markedly, and to Odham MacGuinness’ complete surprise they actually managed to smile. Parsons asked if they might return to the warmth of the house and discuss when they could help him start the construction of a Moonlight Wall in SE4.