These don’t seem to be the words of a man trying to lie. The little he’s said so far has been true, but it feels off, as if he didn’t really remember he had these items. It reminds her a little of the man with the match found at the burning of Larkin’s manor.

He hadn’t much memory of that event. The difference is that Elias has admitted the journal is his, but the writings are older, and this knife is apparently only vaguely familiar to him. Neither of those seem to be lies, but she’s running out of ideas on who could be the mastermind in league with the demons.

“How long has it been since you have seen either?”