*Call Your Other Advisors To Confirm...*

"I must deliberate on this evidence, there will be a quarter hour recess." You state and take the notes back to the palace.

Soon the other advisors are looking at the document and their reports are mixed, but generally, support Malinalxochitl. The two dissenting voices are Teoxihuitl and Ichtaca, who each say the scroll could be that old, for different reasons. (Except Ahuiliztli, who has no idea what the others are talking about...)

"With the power of the divine, all things are possible; and many spirits are known to be tricksters," Teoxihuitl says.

"There is a more mundane explanation," Ichtaca says when you ask her opinion. "If you know what you are doing you can mix inks that take longer to dry but also longer to fade and brown, I would be unsurprised if a Herb Woman kept her notes in such a way. Further, if you store a scroll in a narrow tube of waxed leather that is sealed with wax the ink takes much longer to brown, and there is a trace of wax on the back side of the scroll." Ichtaca says but then undercuts her own point. "However, it would also not surprise me if an herb woman knew these things and used them to cover a forgery."

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