While the cops “run her plates”, as the saying goes - what idiom would work here, at that? - Charlotte has her own resources in which to search.
Perhaps the biggest and most interesting is the Lindorm Library. Charlotte isn’t even sure what it is, as she’s accessed only a bit of it. But the library in a sense is self-describing - everything known about it is stored within it. It is the vast interior of an inconceivably large dragon, currently and perhaps permanently asleep. The dragon’s innards are maintained by whole civilizations of creatures. The ones maintaining the Library are called “booklins”, mostly humanoid, with enormous eyes, hands, and feet. They inscribe all manner of information onto the interior walls of the dragon’s arteries, and weave capillaries to connect related subjects. Somehow, the information itself nourishes the beast instead of oxygen? Charlotte is deeply uncertain of the mechanics here, even after repeated conversations with them.
The booklins have scrying crystals that record everything that happens around the Magus’ staff. When Charlotte wants privacy, she puts the staff away. But when she’s “on business”, it’s with her, tracking her actions. It’s always been thus, so the actions of prior Magi are also recorded. Charlotte has tactfully declined all the offers of the booklins to tell her about Everard’s adventures, but earlier incarnations have had interesting stories to tell. Months ago, she also conjured for herself a pair of spectacles that will feed anything she looks at or reads into the Library.
Such a resource of information is impressive, but not absolute. Charlotte isn’t sure she’ll find what she wants in here, but she reasons it’s her best bet.
And what does she want? Previous experience with the wounds created by Doctor Infinity indicated that they were sometimes used as obstacles to time travelers, or to damage some key moment in history. So, what was the history of this place? Something that wouldn’t be found on Wikipedia, in all likelihood. So Charlotte puts the question to the booklins. Her key words here are “Apollonia” and “Illyria”.
Dragon blood fills the arteries. The booklins place their own alchemical retrieval concoctions into the bloodstream along the channels in question. It will illuminate all the texts of interest, and they’ll have something - certainly within the next hour, or perhaps a day, or one rotation of the Cerberus Stars? Certainly not longer than that, milady!
Charlotte gives her polite thanks, and turns her thoughts to the Fighting Falcon.