The obvious answer seemed to be to understand the brain creatures better, but that was why a person studied anything, that couldn't be what he was looking for. What could he possibly have expected her to deduce with the very limited information she did have? Unless he was setting her up to fail he had to believe she had enough information to at least come close to the answer, so what was it? The entire incident had to have been a mistake, if not it had been incredibly dangerous and evidently backfired since... Well, her involvement couldn't have been anticipated, but then she wasn't convinced Mr. Mulciber had had the situation in hand before she'd turned up.

"To understand them. Perhaps there's a way they could be utilized or provide understanding of certain types of magic." It sounded terribly vague to Petra but she didn't know how he could expect her to be any more specific without more context.

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