and stared at the column intently for a moment. After a while, she moved up the winding stairs, and Darius had to focus his gaze on her, because it seemed that the drawers in the unusual bookcase were jumping from place to place. The priestess stopped almost two floors higher and confidently reached for a drawer slightly above her head, pulled it out and quickly glanced through several volumes placed there. She took out one of the books and headed back.
The priestess stood in front of Darius again and spread the volume out on the counter. For a moment, she leafed through the pages covered with tiny characters.
-Nikos of Itea.- She read, pointing her finger.- A vampire historian who initially studied the history of wizard wars. After the death of his wife and daughter in a vampire blight, he abandoned his previous work and began researching rare diseases and ways to treat them. He published several books on the subject. Unfortunately, he died in a maritime disaster. All of his medical studies were published under the collective title Rare Diseases and How to Treat Them, with subsequent volumes bearing subtitles referring to the race they described.- The priestess's finger slid down the column and then to the next one on that page. - Indeed, one of these works deals with lycanthropes. Unfortunately, it is not in our collection.
-And the part about dragons?- Darius leaned in a little closer. The pages of the book were written in such small letters that to him they looked as if they had been painted over.
-Hmmm...- The priestess looked through the historian's bibliography once more. - I regret to say that we do not have that one either.
Bleist thought for a moment. He didn't expect to learn much, but the information about the historian himself was a good start to his search.
-Thank you very much, Reverend.- The mage bowed.
The priestess opened the book at the very end, where there were still blank pages.
-It seems that you are not the only one who has inquired about Nikos of
