Ezra returned to his room after that night just before curfew. He had decided to take a walk around the school, not for the sake of joblessness, but to map out the area, knowing where everything was in the academy.
The only place he didn't enter was the martial academy. He came close to their border but didn't go through. As he was there, he was hit with a thought.
What if the same thing was happening in the martial side of the academy? Missing students and the harvest could be a possibility linking the two, but he decided not to think about that for now; he had much on his plate.
Ezra lay on his bed with the lamp on; Seth had gone to bed. He took out the three books from the shadow space, as well as the folder.
He contemplated what he should start with, and after much thought, his hunger for the information of the dark ages won.
He took the first book, which was labeled Volume One.