"Can you give specific powers to people? It seems like... something conceptually easier to do and similar enough that it would be relevant."

"Well, there is how my family has a tendency to sprout elemental powers every other generation, which was a gift from a powerful critter. But it might be a species-specific power, hard to tell."

"I wonder if Clow left notes anywhere."

"Nowhere that my family knows of and if anyone found them they managed to keep it quiet."

"How about his house? Or wizard castle?" Temple asks, and then turning to Kero, "Where did he live?"

"He lived in London, but I was already in the book when he died."

"Can you tell us where? Did he make other nifty artifacts?"

"I could find where, and he made a few but not many. I don't know how many."

"I am not aware of his residence location. We know that at some point after his death my family managed to acquire one of his artifacts."

"We use it to find the cards."

"Show us!"

Felix shows them the Rashiban.

It's a board in the shape of an eight-pointed star with various Chinese symbols in gold, including those from the I Ching. It's mostly black and white with strips of blue, green, red and yellow marking the cardinal directions.

"It's a sort of magic compass."

"How does it point?"

Felix demonstrates. It creates a white glow that turns into a beam of light. It can find specific kinds of magic, including the cards.

"Cool! That's way better than meditating."

"No wonder you got to places faster than we did!"

"Also, wow the Mirror was a jerk, you two are much nicer than it made us believe. ...why exactly did you flee that first time?"

"We are low on charged foci and we didn't know enough about you to talk under those conditions. We weren't planning to approach or be as open with you tonight, but the situation with the Mirror showed the failure modes with that."

"And you guys didn't shoot us, like we would expect the Graynorth clan to do... so there is that."

"Foci? The scrolls?"

"That is what I meant, yes."

"Did you expect the cardcaptor to end up theirs? Or evil?"

"Well, it was reasonable to be cautious. Some tales about Clow are quite extraordinary even when you factor I am a living creature of heraldry."

"Care to tell us some? Kero is the sum total of our sources of knowledge."

"Sure... mostly what we know is that Clow was a crazy and brilliant sorcerer, very extroverted, friendly, shameless, ambitious and a prankster. And then there are all the sort of rumors like how he was banned from the London Avalon, or that he was a secretly a woman, or the one about him being a sphinx, dragon, unicorn, fairy - the last two are not real - or a combination of all of those."