Chapter 108: Book 2 : Chapter 6

When we had retrieved the hefty book, we headed back to Max's little house on the edge of Naples.

The book was incredibly thick and the pages as thin as Max's chance of success in life. The writing was minuscule making it hard to read the thousands of tiny names and dates of birth on each page. The first 500 hundred pages were hardly legible, although someone had carefully gone over the ink so that it hadn't faded. Hecate Chiaramonti was on the first page, her birth date 1076 BC. That's 3096 years ago making it by far the oldest book in existence.

For the first few hours of looking for the Megestanis family's names, Max sat beside me, kind of helping. He then went to make dinner while I continued to search and then after five more hours tried to persuade me to carry on in the morning. I was more determined than that though, I'd go all night if I had too.