Angel's eyebrows furrowed slightly. If Brian hadn't mentioned being raised into this, he wouldn't have found it strange that he didn't know. You did have to dig around to find this type of information. Either you devoted your life to studying all of this or you had a couple of centuries on your hands to read a lot of books and make a lot of contacts. And unless you knew where to look, occult shops with genuine supplies were difficult to locate. A lot of them were made for tourists.

But Brian made it sound like he'd been surrounded by this type of work his whole life. Surely, his entire family couldn't have gone without knowing these things?

"What? No, of course not, you have to put one together. The ingredients aren't hard to come by." There was a beat or two of silence. Something else was odd about this.

"What are you trying to protect yourself from, anyway? Only certain demons can be kept contained by something like this, cases of demonic possession usually."

Wait, had Brian run into a case of demonic possession here? How had he even known? Angel was fairly certain there hadn't been a lot of chances for a patient to go around examining the foundations for plakticine and that was really the only way to tell.