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Who: Siegfried and anyone at the library
What: Quality time with books in the comfort of air conditioning.
When: 7/5
Where: Locke City Public Library

Siegfried had come to the library to work on a research paper for his art history summer class, but as often was his way, had wound up with far more books on his own personal interests, so while there were a few books on medieval painting, there were quite a few more anthologies of rare fairy tales from across the globe, a few bird watcher guides, a tree identification key, a German/English dictionary and a study on European castles. His note pad was mostly empty, school work utterly forgotten as he became lost in the pages of the borrowed books. The fact that he had been there the entire day, barely moving and forgoing lunch seemed to have utterly escaped his notice as well...

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"Did it come from the tree? That's a strange way to find a book."

"It is. A lot of strange things have happened after finding in addition..."

Not... that he'd really been involved in any of them. He'd been mostly just watching. It wasn't unlike reading another story, to be honest.

"Are they like the book? Or are the weird occurrences separate from the 'Prince and the Raven.'"

Because, god knows, she's been facing some "strange things" herself.

"No one I've asked knows this story..."

"What about Google? Internet searches?"

"Nothing. It's like it exists nothing in."

"That's very strange. Perhaps it was privately published? But I still feel like there would be some sort of internet record about it, if that were the case."

What is with these mysteries danggggg.

"Do you have the book with you? Perhaps I could take a look? At the very least, see if anything hints as to where it's from or who it was published by. Different areas of the world use different types of paper, or different materials for covers."

In answer, Siegfried reaches down to his bag, opening it and pulling out the book. It at the same time looks both new and old, as if the publisher used antique methods in its creation. There's no publishing mark, and the pages inside are all blank. The cover is very detailed, however, gold tone designs covering both the front and back.

Oh, wow. Okay, hope you don't mind her sitting down in the chair next to where you've been, because wow. Looking at this shit requires sitting.

Julia takes the book very gently and sets it down on the table to study it-- there's no way to see if that's real gold, but it certainly looks like it. The designs don't imply that it's from any certain region in Germany, as they typically did-- or, perhaps they signify a certain village that she wouldn't know the details of? But it's so neat and clean, what the heck. Not as old as it should be, with designs like that. Someone must have spent a small fortune on publishing an empty book.

"This is amazing-- I don't know why someone would waste so much money making such a beautiful book, but putting nothing in it. Unfortunately, I can't tell where it comes from or anything else, really. I'm sorry."

If he minds, he doesn't show it. Not that he often shows what he feels, even when he's aware of what it is.

"It isn't intended blank. The author is listed, but no existence."

That was the most frustrating thing. By all indications, there should be a story inside that book... but there was nothing....

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