Jacob listened to the instructions Chloe gave. She certainly seemed to be the natural leader of these three, he silently remarked. “Very well,” He said, nodding. “I'll stay here.” His thoughts returned to some of his other charges, and he hoped that none of them would develop some sort of emergency during this crisis. “And it's all right. I understand what Tabitha's going through. It's not easy to lose someone, especially a protector like a whitelighter.” He'd seen the same reaction before, when a whitelighter got taken off a case and he'd been assigned to it as the new protector. These things took time.<br/><br/>He sat down at the table, studying the scroll. The majority of it was various anecdotal evidence of Sha'kos's power-all the nasty-, while some of it was various superstition, but he knew that somewhere here, there had to be the answer, the solution, to defeating Sha'kos. Jacob knew it had to be, for Bryan's sake.