

It responded to his wishes and appeared like an ordinary book, nothing to stand out in a library. Sighing, he opened the White Chronicle on the desk and made a note about this. Would he order the botanist killed to steal his research? Whether he would or not, it didn’t matter as Hugo would to win the war.

He would have focused on the potential to power thaumachines. Given the people involved, Stocke theorized that Fennel had gotten word somehow of the conut research. This was looking to be a repeat of the time he’d tried to help the botanist and his children without realizing what the father’s research could do. This would be them, from eight months ago. They have no other known family, so we express our condolences to the Aloe family’s friends.’ Aloe was mostly known for his studies into the mana properties of herbs, vegetables, and grains. The cause of the fire is unknown at this time. Aloe, claiming his life along with those of his two young children. ‘A tragic fire occurred this week at the home of the renown botanist R. One obituary had the important term he stopped skimming to read it. The library was hushed around him, not entirely silent due to occasional coughs, a squeaky wheel from a cart, and whispered conversations. Even the obituaries could be suspect, but there likely was one he wanted to know about sometime in the past year. But if it wasn’t something that affected Hugo directly, there should be facts in these. It was all just another tool of General Hugo the articles had to be taken with a grain of salt. Wearing a brown cloak to be less noticeable, Stocke shifted through the microfilm records of Alistel’s newspaper.
