About a month passes until late March. During this time, the occult world realizes that the Inquisition has sold the pyramid to some English guy. They're not as excited about it any more, though. The team uses "speak no evil" on Anabel Cassandra and let her go with stern warnings. The monkeys then spend most of their time elsewhere since they're very useful occult paraphernalia. The glasses live in the vault at the Ranch, though.
Alexandra builds a lot of things - a Desperado style guitar case for Angelina, a bunch of auto-gyro gun-aiming things for use by the less firearms-talented of the team, and so on.
Esteban gets phantom coathanger itch. He has also been spending a lot of time scouting for a long-term project... a woman named Donna Velasquez, a theater major at U. Santa Fe, who is a quiet unassuming (but cute) woman. He makes an effort to get into a play she is working backstage on, but muffs up his magic and makes everyone despise him for a day. Needless to say he doesn't get the part.
On the night of the 21st, Angelina has a strange dream. She finds herself in an extremely expensive corner office in New York. The dream feels extremely real. There's a man behind the desk who introduces himself as Stephen Alzis. There is also sobbing from a nearby room, perhaps a man.
Alzis offers her a job with the Network. He says they were very impressed with what she did to "The Icepick." Angelina plays dumb, mostly, claiming not to know what he means but listening to his offers of a huge salary for doing random occult things (or at least that's what is implied). He also implies that he has had trouble getting in touch with her, and that his method only works on the equinox. She awakens clutching a business card which is spattered with dried blood.
The next day Angelina consults the team. She's pretty worried about him coming back, although they take the equinox thing to mean that she has at least three months before he can do it again. Later research by Xerxes turns up that the ritual that was probably used only works on an actual equinox, and only on someone who is asleep. It also requires a fair amount of the blood of a close relative - a cousin, nephew, or closer relation. They decide in the end to just ignore the whole thing and maybe for Angelina to stay up on the next equinox. It seems that the Network doesn't know that Angelina isn't a mage and that she is working with the Inquisition.
A week or so later, Esteban comes home late to find his sister chanting in Latin while a bundle of feathers flies around her room. He talks to her and calls the Strausses to check for baleful influences, which they don't find. The next morning the whole team converges on Tina (delicately) and gets the story. Apparently she has learned the ritual from a friend Martina, who makes them up and knows a couple more besides. This is the only one Tina knows, and the first time she's gotten it to work. Esteban and Alexandra try the ritual but can't make it work themselves.
Angelina chews out Esteban about the whole thing and reveals that she knows more about Tina's life than he does, which is somewhat traumatic for him. Esteban later talks to Tina about magic and doesn't come down against it, but not particularly for it either. He tries to explain a little about how it works, and ends up having to admit that for his magic he can't have a girlfriend or long-term relationship. Tina things this is sad.
Thielo stakes out Martina's house and catches her coming home from school. She has a small white and gold flame over her head. SILVER's verdict is that she is creating a new type of magic - angelomancy? - and Tina may be learning it. But they're not done investigating yet.
"When I smelled incense coming from her room, I wasn't thinking she was doing magic." (pause as Thielo looks clueless) "I was thinking she was doing drugs." - Esteban to Thielo