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Dr. Nowell, now understanding the potential danger, urged them to surrender the artifact to the university for proper containment and study.\nThe meeting also revealed that Mr. Sherwin, the lawyer who had organised the hotel auction, had miraculously survived the collapse and was recovering in Middlesex Hospital. Additionally, Mr. Freeland from the fire brigade was investigating the hotel incident, and Dr. Nowell offered to write a letter of introduction to help them access the rubble site. The party maintained their cover story that the jar was buried in the hotel ruins, though they privately worried about the implications of these new connections to ancient evil.\nSunday, June 5, 2021\nSunday morning brought unsettling supernatural experiences for all the investigators. Each awoke with a strange sense of being watched, having lost some of their spiritual energy during the night. Alfie noticed a suspicious squirrel that seemed to be observing him with unusual intelligence, while Reverend Grainger experienced a powerful divine presence during an intense prayer session. Everett Reed encountered even more disturbing phenomena while walking to John's house - he witnessed a shimmering patch of air like a heat haze on the cool day, accompanied by faint, haunting music reminiscent of their previous supernatural encounters.\nThe party reconvened at John's house to share their experiences and plan their next moves. They discussed the possibility of using a Ouija board to contact Margaret Wickersham, the missing woman whose voice they had heard at the British Museum, believing she might have crucial information about the scroll. Their conversation was interrupted by practical matters - the Reverend needed to return Mrs. Moffat's vase with flowers as promised, and they had arranged to visit Mr. Sherwin at the hospital.\nAt Middlesex Hospital, they found Sherwin recovering in a shared ward with other head injury patients. Despite his ordeal, he appeared remarkably unharmed aside from memory gaps and unconsciousness. Sherwin recounted his fragmented memories of the auction, confirming there had been chanting before the supernatural incident that destroyed the hotel. More importantly, he revealed his concerns about items from Lt. Scott's estate, particularly a protective bowl mentioned in Scott's diary that should have been with the jar but was missing from the deceased officer's effects.\nSherwin also disclosed that Nigel Finley had visited him, demanding access to Scott's diary and claiming his relative had served with Scott in the desert. 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