"I do apologize, we eat kind of simple in our normal days, I hope you don't mind. But it is good tasting and there is plenty so feel free to ask for more."   As you are being served, a small owlish man appears with a stack of papers.   "Oh Sicario, there you are. All, this is Sicario, he has been taken over the work on this project."

Sicario proceeds to spread the stack of pages across a nearby table.   "So, as you know the island was mentioned as the key. But what isn't sure is exactly how it is a key. That's what we need you all for. "   He picks up a sheet of paper. "This mentions a map, but you don't need a key to a map, right? And the documents seem to make it sound like they are a description of another location, so kind of a map to the map. But like the island, it doesn't say what you find, just where it was."

           

     

I notice that Dom Ramon is miffed about something. I am sure it has to do with that piece of paper that the Condessa was so open about. Come to think of it, I don't remember seeing that paper before, but Don Ramon was very shocked at the way she casually put it out in the open. I can't figure him out and I sit there eating the stew and trying to remember if I have seen anything out of the ordinary from Don Ramon either at the ball or on the trip. I am concentrating too hard on that and it takes the mention of the Signore Islands to snap my focus back to what it happening in the room.   I was thrilled when the Condessa hired us to continue searching for the meaning behind the amulet, but I saw how much research that this Sicario has done - or not done is more accurate. His notes are all over the place and he implies that we are only there to do the grunt work while he stays here all safe and comfy. Not a real scholar at all!