Faith in his psychic abilities encouraged Jake as he stepped up to Room 41. The strange ethereal atmosphere of the British Museum when emptied of visitors struck him. His footsteps echoed as he crossed the floor to the cabinet Cathy had indicated earlier. The dizziness associated with his synaesthesia overwhelmed him and he swayed on his feet. No surer sign than this vertiginous feeling could alert him that he was in the presence of the supernatural.
He had learned to quell the debilitating strength of the sensation with experience, thus he steadied himself to search for and identify the problematical artefact. His eyes roamed over various Anglo-Saxon brooches, clasps and bracelets but were always drawn back to a particular ring. As he focussed on the gold band with an onyx set in a decor
