(Wesley is sitting at a table in the castle library reading a book.)

GUNN: You actually read this stuff?

WESLEY: Hmm. It resembles certain demonic languages with which I'm - familiar, but - whole passages appear to be missing.

(Cordy is looking at another book and Wesley spots the head of the animal engraved on its cover.)

WESLEY: Fascinating. A hart.

CORDELIA: It's not a heart, it's a bambi. And we expect him to read this teeny tiny print?

WESLEY: No not h-e-a-r-t, h-a-r-t. A male red deer or staggard. Often associated with rural mysticism.

GUNN: Yeah, they all got animals on them. Probably just a bunch of demon bedtime stories.

(Wesley looks at the three books lying open in front of him on the desk.)

WESLEY: Of course! The holy books are written in Trionic.

CORDELIA: What?

WESLEY: No one volume is complete without the other two. - Uhm. I-It's really one book broken up into three pieces.

CORDELIA: Like a trilogy.

WESLEY: No. No. Much more complex than that. See this passage here (points at the first book), it continues in this volume here (points at the second) then concludes in this one (points at the third). The rhythm of the sentence structure - lets one know when to jump from book, to book, to book.

GUNN: Anything about the portals?

WESLEY: Impossible to say. It will take me some time to decipher, I'm afraid.

CORDELIA: Starting to bore the princess.

WESLEY: Though I do seem to be finding references to the cursed one.

CORDELIA: Really? There is stuff about messiah me?

WESLEY: Com-shuk.

CORDELIA: Huh?

WESLEY: Contextually a - a verb.

CORDELIA: Something I'm going to do?

WESLEY: With a 'groosalug'

CORDELIA: What does that mean?

WESLEY: I have no idea.

GUNN: Sounds dirty if you ask me.

CORDELIA: Nobody did.

GUNN: Look. Why don't we just get somebody who knows this stuff to tell us what it means?

CORDELIA: Like who?

GUNN: Like one of them priests the host was talking about. These books belong to them, right?

(Wesley closes the middle book and sees that it has the head of a male sheep engraved on its cover.)

CORDELIA: Well, yeah.

GUNN: Look, you're the one going on and on about how you're the princess. Can't you just make them translate 'em for us?

(Wes closes the second book. It has a wolf's head on the cover.)

CORDELIA: I guess I could. Yeah. Why not? Princess, not really taking a vote, is she? I'll make a decree.

(Wes looks down at the images on the covers of the three books, rearranges their order.)

GUNN: (looking at books) Wolf - ram...

WESLEY: And hart. I'm not sure the priests can be trusted.

• Wolfram & Hart

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