though the
Brother's power levels lied somewhere Dr E's and that of the Absurd
Tentacle.

Zodiac rebuffed Alec and
Cedric, who had become close friends of late, and taunted Alec with
braggadocio regarding Kicia. Trevor obviously had not realized that
Kicia and Cowan had recently been intimate. Novembre apparently did
not yet know that Kicia had just discovered that she was pregnant and
wasn't sure of the paternity. Alec did know that Kicia was expecting
and implored her to get a blood test. Lykos, in the meantime, had
developed a rather involved theory regarding Brother Zodiac. He went
to Straw and Cary with his fears. He had come to believe that
Vaikuntha had avatars in Hallmark and that “Trevor Novembre” was
one of them. Unfortunately, only the sword and amulet of the Black
Cabal could detect a Presence in one of itsHe then mused to himself, “Only one more
and we shall be complete..” Brother Zodiac then reached out with
his far-ranging mind and located the “one more”. He was scarcely
surprised at the identity of the other piece of the unholy trinity.
As Caulder Gaunt had emerged 25 years earlier a total amnesiac, and
Zodiac had always been guarded about his past save for his claims to
be Trevor Novembre of 1960s New Orleans, the third of this trinity
emerged in 1954 with a whole set of false memories, memories about to
be dispelled once and for all, along with the entire being that
housed those memories – all subsumed by Brother Zodiac.

And so we return to Grey
Parminter's desperate summoning of Vaikuntha in 1954, which at long
last bore cosmic fruit. Vaikuntha had returned to this plane after