Ashlynn flipped quickly through the book until she found the section that described different manifestations of a witch's mark. While Isabell couldn't understand the strange, hooked, and angular characters that filled the book, the diagrams were all neatly labeled with brackets to measure the length and breadth of marks, the length and position of roots, and countless other details that made each mark unique.
Once again, she was taken aback by how sophisticated the Eldritch understanding of their world and the power of witchcraft must be. Far from the primitive superstitions the church claimed it to be, the book in Ashlynn's hands proved that the Eldritch people had adopted the same kind of systemic methods of learning to their use of witchcraft that Isabell had practiced to learn engineering.
