<strong>"There doesn't seem to be anything evil about the book,"</strong>a voice said softly as Izusa opened it.  She looked up to see Iber the fairy floating near the book looking at it interested.  In the distance and beyond a row of staked plants, Izusa could see Esszie tending to some of her herbs.  This was the closest Izusa had ever seen Iber appearing when anyone else was nearby.  Certainly the fairy wasn't visible at the moment to the Naga who had her back turned, but still it was interesting.  The book, an expression of faith, must have been particularly interesting to the divine feyling.<strong> "I mean, it's just a book, but still, you'd think maybe it would be evil somehow and I'm not sensing anything from it."</strong>The fairy looked over at the naga who's back was turned,<strong>"Her either actually.  Well, maybe a little bit, but, you know, certainly not what I'd have expected from a naga."</strong><br/><br/>Suddenly Iber winked out of existence as Esszie straightened for a moment, and turned slightly to look over at Izusa.  The naga gave a little smile and then returned to her gardening.  Iber however did not return.<br/><br/>Cracking open the book, Izusa tried to get a sense of it, of the book, and of the faith.  Instead of trying to glean specific information.  She got that Pandora was also known in an old tongue as Ah'mie and their own faith did not see her as a goddess of corruption so much as one of lust.  Obviously the aspect of corruption was heavy, but the book seemed to focus on the lusts the goddess inspired and cultivated in her worshippers.  One of the first tales in the book told of the legions of the hell that Ah'mie had originally inhabited.  She'd been a demoness, and struggled, been used, tormented, but she used her guile and her seduction as a succubus to raise through the ranks.  Eventually becoming the queen of her layer of hell, she did it all with guile, subterfuge, seduction, and of course the corruption of her enemies.  By the end of the first 'book' in the holy tome, Ah'mie had risen to power and those who had once tormented her now worshiped her.<br/><br/>Despite Izusa's initial idea to gloss through the book and get a sense of it, she found that once she'd begun reading the holy text, it was hard to skip ahead.  So it was with a little start that she looked up to see Esszie slithering towards her and the last rays of the day's sunlight barely peaking over the hills to the west.<strong> "Well lets go inside, you can continue reading by the fire.  But I'm going to have a little more work to do tonight.  A minor disagreement that I have to adjudicate."</strong><br/><br/>The pair headed into the house and Esszie lit a few lanterns giving the home a nice pleasing warm glow before moving to the fireplace.<strong>"Did you have any questions before they get here?"</strong>