Amongst the dust

Basilisk sat on the stone floor and watched her explore the library. He had to admit, her trick with the paper was clever. It showed him that she was respecting the space, and would be returning everything back where she had found it.

He twitched a smile at her enthusiasm, and obediently moved forward to have a look at the page. He couldn’t follow all the words with ease. He would need more than a few moments to stare at the page to get it to stop jumbling around. But he could see the sketch of a ‘catapult’ as she called it. “A shame we wouldn’t have any convenient walls to place one.” He murmured as he ran through the Col in his mind. It looked like it would fire quite a distance if he was understanding the diagram correctly.

As for her comment on borrowing. “Just don’t promise more than I can repay” He said a little dryly, though perhaps he and Art could barter over borrowing some books for a length of time. He didn’t know how much the other wolf valued these books.
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