The Ghost In The Library Basement

September 30th, 2007

Players: Meyla, ShadowHawk, Pinnos, Illuminada, Gelthagar

It seems that a hermit wizard who lived up in the top portion of the mountains was recently found dead in his home. It seems that most of his books have been donated to the public library in the city of Vintermor.

Rumors have leaked out that there's been some strange going ons in the library's basement since the boxes of his stuff have been delivered.

Meyla heard the rumors on one of the few times that she was home from a hunting trip and decides to head to the library and find out what is going on. She straps on her gear, ready for anything, always be prepared, a ranger's motto. She takes a leisurely stroll to the Library.

The rumours reached Pinnos over at the Open Hand; this would explain why Gelthagar and Illuminada are in tow with the cleric, the latter roped in to helping out with some drudge work at the chapel of Kunnia. There's always snow to be shoveled and goods to be moved about there, and besides, Lumi would just sleep in otherwise... Pinnos gets the door for the pair of them, pausing by the threshold and murmuring quietly to his companions.

ShadowHawk comes walking slowly up to the library a bag being carried, or dragged might be a better description, slung over his back. From the shape of the bag's contents one would easily be able to guess he was carrying a book, a large book, from the looks of it this tome is almost as big as the gnome who is dragging it. As he nears the doors he notices the others that seem to be going to the same place and states Umm Hi everyone! Do you think you could go in first and distract them long enough that I can get this book back with out them noticing? he then shrugs and walks up the stairs to enter.

Indeed, Gelthagar has accompanied his friend from Aegis. The Paladin enters the library as quietly as he can, but wearing the armor he wears makes it difficult to be too stealthy. The clinking of rings on plate and the brushing of leather drowns out what little noise his boots were making as they squeaked on to the floor. He is armed, as usual, with all the accoutrements of a Paladin of the Risen One.

Illuminada would surely protest Pinnos' thoughts, but, not now. She dusts off her hands and looks around, curiously. She's dressed in leathers, and much more quiet than the two she's accompanying.

A librarian a bookish sort, stands by the desk as if she knew that a bunch of people would be coming in. "Are you here to find out what's going on in our basement?" she asks the group of adventurers.

ShadowHawk slides the tome out of his bag and up onto the counter, "I umm Found this on the ground and thought you might like it. Basement? Whats going on in the basement? I'll help! It might be more fun then sitting and reading." He then turns to ready himself for a run down to the basement.

Meyla nods, "That is what I have come here for." she says and glances around at the others. She dips her head to them and smiles a bit.

Pinnos is a similar source of watery, metallic sounds, as he goes clinking and clanking into the library after his two friends. Indeed, he's a walking contravention of the silence libraries typically demand of their patrons, but then again, he's not here to borrow books. He carries his mace but keeps his shield strapped to his back for now, and makes a visible effort not to knock anything over with his armoured bulk. The iron candlestick stand that he clips, then, doesn't quite tip over and instead rattles back into place. "...Sorry." He doesn't presume to take in the lead in addressing the librarian, and instead opts to peer about the confines of the book repository.

Since Gelthagar had followed Pinnos here, he lets the cleric lead. He has only heard a few rumors about this hermit wizard, but when Pinnos told him there was evil afoot, there was certainly no way the Paladin could avoid helping out the library. His shield was actually on his arm, though his blade was not drawn. At least not until he finds something to stick it with.

Illuminada smiles prettily at the librarian, nodding at her question, "Aye, miss, we are. How might we be of service, would you like to share anything you've found or heard, yourself?" She taps herself, "I'm Illuminada Dawnsinger." Then she gestures to the two men with her, "This is Pinnos, cleric of Kunnia, and Gelthagar...paladin." She gives Meyla a soft smile and nods her way as well, then waves to Shadowhawk.

"Well c'mon back" the librarian says with a wave of her hand and starts heading towards the back of the library. As you follow her to the back of library you see a stone doorway with a heavy wooden door hanging on the hinges. She stops and turns around to face those that followed "Do not wreck any of those books down there, some of them are priceless and would be a great loss. Is there any questions before I go ahead and open the door for you?" she asks quietly to the group.

Meyla thinks for a moment, "Any specifics on what has been seen or heard, or when things started, people left it alone?"

Pinnos clatters down the hallway, with a glance behind him to Gelthagar. He feels much better, knowing the paladin has his back. He pauses by the doorway, and listens keenly to Meyla's questions. He'd likely introduce himself at an appropriate point, but just now does not seem to be it.

ShadowHawk nods then moves closer to the librarian, he motions her down and whispers "Are there any about dragons? If so I'd really like to be able to read them." He then fixes her with an award winning smile and a look of complete child like innocence. Standing he begins to whisper words in the tongue of dragons, as he whispers a reddish glow starts to leak out of his eyes turning a deep purple before settling into a blue not unlike the night sky, enveloping him in a suit of invisible armour. Motioning toward himself "I think I may need this since the stairs seem steep and I tend to trip a lot."

Illuminada nods at Pinnos when she hears his words, and then she wonders of the librarian, "Are things cramped down there? What's the layout like, just bunches of bookshelves?"

The librarian looks to Meyla "Well it sounds like someone is rummaging around down there, like they're searching for something" she gives a small shrug "Some of those boxes we haven't had a chance to even open yet" She looks down to ShadowHawk and bends low to hear him "We have books on dragons that you can look at later" Standing back up again looking over to Illuminada "There are a few shelves down there, but mostly a pile of boxes right now, it's not very cramped the lighting is kinda dim even with the torches that was down there"

Meyla nods and pulls her bow out, stringing it just to be on the safe side and looks at the others, "Shall we?" she asks with a smile.

The blade is drawn from Gelthagar's scabbard as he nods, solemnly. "Let us hope that our weapons need not shed blood this day, but that they be ready and capable of doing so. May The Skylord watch over us." The Paladin was ready. At least he hopes he is. Pinnos, seeming a quiet sort, had muttered something to Illuminada there, the bard then going on to voice his concerns. With the librarian's 'briefing' over, though, he moves to draw his kite shield, mounting it on his arm and testing the weight of his mace. Perhaps rather paranoid of him, really. I mean, it's probably just rats down there, right? The paladin's hopes are echoed by the cleric's solemn nod. "And Aegis have our backs."

The Librarian opens the heavy wooden door using a skeleton key to unlock it first, as the door opens outwards you can see that the stairway down is only wide enough for one person at a time. She looks back to the group and quirks an eyebrow when she sees Meyla's bow, she gives her a disapproving frown and a small shake of her head.

"Remember, do not destroy any of the books down there." she warns as she sees more weapons being drawn.

Illuminada nods at the librarian and she flashes a pretty smile. "We'll do our best." She watches Gelthagar and Pinnos, and she waits for them to move before trailing closely after the other half elf.

ShadowHawk eyes brighten at the mention of more books to read, he then skips down the stairs once the door is opened

The stone stairs are old and fairly steep and seem to spiral a bit as they go down. It is an enclosed staircase. The stone floor of the basement seems to be fairly clean considering it's a basement. The room seems quite cool and smells of dusty books. Looking around the room you see that the walls each have three horizontal shelves running the length of the walls and they are full of old dusty books, some look as though if you were to touch them they'd fall apart. The centre of the room seems to be full of a stack of boxes. They're not neatly piled but all piled in a haphazard manner as if someone was in a rush to get them down there. The room itself is about 50ft long and about 20ft wide, There's a torch in each corner of the room attached to the stone walls and the librarian was right, it's quite dim down there.

Meyla waits for the others to make their way down the stairs so that she can follow up. She keeps herself quiet, no use telling whatever might be down here how many people there are. She keeps her movements quiet, or tries to as she watches along with the others.

This is not going to be a stealthy mission; though Meyla's reasoning is entirely sound. Pinnos follows with heavy footfalls (in full plate, it's all he can manage) behind the eager gnome. He's been out in the taiga with the fellow some weeks previous, and almost saw him die then. As such, the cleric is a bit antsy as he tries to catch up. "Should we get some light shone down here?" he wonders of the group, and peering off into the darker reaches of the basement.

Illuminada wanders along, following after Gelthagar. She's chewing her lip, and absently fiddling with her bow, just looking around and watching, curiously.

Gelthagar is not much quieter than Pinnos, if he's quiet at all. The man was tall, much taller than the rest of those here with him. It made being in the center easy for him, since he could see over everyone's heads, but it also made him noisier - it took more metal to cover him than anyone else. "It would help, I think."

ShadowHawk arrives at the bottom of the stairs and starts to head out into the room only to stop suddenly to sneeze and sneeze again due to the dust. Once his eyes clear he looks around the room, starting to move one way then shakes his head and turns to go another way. He then shrugs I don't see any trouble, but there is a stack of books here I'd like to go through.

Meyla frowns a little and shakes her head, "Any idea where the strange stuff is coming from?" she looks around a bit, trying to see if she can tell if anything is out of the ordinary, "Start looking at some of the shelves?"

At Gelthagar's agreement, Pinnos bows his head in murmured prayer, finishing with a brief tap to the head of his mace. It flares with a cold, silvery light at his touch, and goes some way to brightening this gloomy cellar.

Meyla blinks as she is standing there and suddenly a book lurches and flies towards her. Only her quick reflexes enable her to catch it. She looks at it curiously, "Um, well that would be unusual."

ShadowHawk wanders over to Meyla and standing on his tiptoes tries to read the title of the book. Then he turns toward the room trying to figure out which pile the book came from, as he surveys the room there is a slight pout on his face. "I would have liked a book too." he says as he searches for whatever tossed the book.

Pinnos lifts his mace higher, in a bid to dispel the shadows around where the book suddenly flew, and to aid ShadowHawk's search. He staying by the entrance to the stairwell for now, and assuming Gelthagar is doing the same. Whatever's down here shouldn't be given the opportunity to escape. Well. Unless it's particularly nasty, in which case, it should feel free...

Illuminada yelps and looks behind her at the book Meyla's caught. Her eyes go wide and she looks in earnest into the darkness, "What in the world is going on?"

Gelthagar's pale blue eyes cast their view on the room again, hoping to find something corporeal and mischievous, rather than the alternate explanation he presumes he will eventually find. Still, undead aren't that scary, and what better to prove his faith? Yes, perhaps a restless spirit would prove to be a worthy challenge. Or his martyrdom.

ShadowHawk continues to survey the basement, suddenly he turns quickly to catch a book that was flying toward him. "Oh a book on Dragons!" he states before finding a place to sit and read.

The gnome is surely mad; Pinnos is certain of it. But he has only the briefest moments to cast him a doubtful look, before another bundle of moldy literature arcs out of the shadows. His shield is raised in time, but he has no need. Illuminada gracefully plucks it from the air before it can collide.

Illuminada manages to spot nothing, and has to rub her eyes. When next she peers about, there's a book flying towards them and she snatches it from the air before it smacks Pinnos in the head. "Oh, enough already with the book throwing. Show yourself, coward!" She sets the book down as neatly as she can, and gets her bow ready. Maybe taunting will work where looking has failed.

Meyla cocks her head to the side and looks at the others and then back, "Definitely curious, but I don't think I see anything." she glances hard to try and find what might have done it.

Likewise, another dusty volume of who-knows-what leaps from the walls and sails towards the tall man's head. Gelthagar had to make a hasty decision, because he knew these books were precious, but likewise, his shield carried the Holy Symbol of the Risen One, and he would never drop his sword. Reluctantly, but quickly, he raises the shield to block the book. He would need weeks of repentance, no doubt.

ShadowHawk sits, his back against the wall under a torch and begins to read. Even though his nose is buried in the book that was thrown at him he still comments "Whoever is throwing the books has good taste, I have not read this one yet."

After the first wave of books is tossed about the room at the people in the room it seems quiet, nothing moving or soaring through the air at them.

Meyla shakes her head a little, "Any idea what this might be, magic of some kind, can anyone tell where it is coming from." she does have her bow ready but there is not much that the ranger can do at the moment.

The Paladin bows his head and briefly mutters a prayer under his breath. "Great Skylord, show your humble servant where true evil lies." He waits and then, with a small sigh, shakes his head and says to the rest here, "Whatever it is, it is not evil. Mean, perhaps. Playful, more likely. Definitely not evil."

Pinnos offers Meyla a brief head shake, before eying the paladin more levelly. He's ready with the symbol of his faith, should Gelthagar's prayer find purchase. He should be paying more attention to the rest of the basement though, as he only turns at the last minute, and the tome intent on smacking him in the back of the head instead still manages a glancing blow to the side. He winces visibly, and struggles to keep his balance.

Without looking up from the book he is now reading Shadowhawk points toward the far corner I think it came from over there, but really whats wrong with something in a library wanting people to read? Yes throwing books at people can be a little extreme he looks up at the armoured clanking men in the room, but really it may be the only way to get some people to read.

Illuminada looks over at Gelthagar when she speaks, and then she sighs. There's a soft gasp when Pinnos is thunked in the head, "Pinnos!" She then frowns, "Where is it?" A brief muttered incantation and her sword is lit up, like a torch.

Meyla heads over to the corner that Shadowhawk mentioned, still wary and she is looking closely at everything around herself, trying to find whatever this might be.

The Paladin follows Meyla to the corner, trying to look at the area for himself, although he sees very little. It was dark in here, and with the two of them, there wasn't much room for light to gather, either. He speaks softly to the gnome, "I don't mean to bother you, Gnomish friend, but we could use a hand." Gelthagar remembers him vividly from his first day at Stonesong.

Pinnos slips his mace into his belt sheath, and rubs the side of his head where the book whacked him. There's the faintest light of healing, easing the bump down there, along with his murmured prayers to his power.

Illuminada looks annoyed, and she meanders into the basement, heading in what seems to be the direction of the books that have been smacking them.

ShadowHawk nods to the Paladin, Yes you need help, but you see if the Library wants us to read I think we should read. If you can find something that would show that it is not just the library trying to get us to read I will be more then happy to help. Until then maybe you should pick up the book you've tried to destroy and see if you can heal it. Not once do his eyes leave the book he is reading.

After Shadowhawk finishes suggesting everyone read, a book seems to wriggle out from each wall from one of the shelves, the circle the room high above noiselessly. Suddenly whacking everyone, save for Illuminada who seems to have turned in time to catch the book that was barreling down at her.

Meyla frowns a bit and shakes her head a bit. "Come out whatever you are, having enough of this." she thinks it is some kind of creature or something doing it, or hoping, could be worse if it was something else.

"I did not destroy any books, I blocked myse-" Thunk. Gelthagar is hit with another book. It would likely bruise him. Deciding not argue with the gnome, he moves to the pile of boxes which had been hastily left here and looks at the top one. "I don't see anything in here but more books, and nothing that interest me, at least. Of course, I'm not much versed in this kind of thing, I usually read holy tomes...."

Illuminada dodges the next book thrown at her, and she lets out an annoyed sound. "Quit it!"

And another weighty 'thunk' as Pinnos is again hit upside the head with embodied knowledge. Never has learning been so painful to the Kunnite. "Wretched things," he mutters, turning about, and eager to find to the source of their torment. "Aegis take you," he says, in a more forceful tone, hand grasping his holy symbol. But it has little effect.

ShadowHawk shouts in surprise when he is hit by a flying book, he closes the book he was reading and looks up. "Hey I was already reading a book I didn't need another one!" he looks around the room with a child like glare, while rubbing the spot on his arm the book hit.

Ears ringing from the last blow, Pinnos takes a moment to smooth down those bumps again, with murmured prayers and the faintest of silvery light. Perks of the trade, and he'd rather not have a splitting headache when their invisible tormentor finally decides to reveal itself.

"Pinnos." Gelthagar states, after he moves the top box away and searches a second. "These are those wizard's things. There are some interesting artifacts in here, but I know not what to make of them. Perhaps you can help me? I have a feeling the answer lies in here somewhere, but I'm not even sure what question we're asking."

Meyla moves over to help, "I am not sure about anything unless it was nature related," she says but looks at the box Gelthagar is going through, "Any of you others?"

ShadowHawk looks around, and with a murmured set of words his eyes begin to glow brightly, a shade of purple that is a blend of red in the center going to blue at the outer edges. He stands and walks over to the pile of boxes, he bends to look at a box that is sitting at the bottom of one of the piles. Straightening he shoves the boxes above it off and readies to look though it.

At the paladin's behest, Pinnos clatters over to the fellow to inspect the crates, just a few moments behind Meyla. "Lumi, help us," he casts to the bard, knowing she might well have some obscure knowledge that may help them here. For his part, he knows scripture and religious ceremony; but little regarding the arcane.

Illuminada meanders towards Pinnos, still looking annoyed. She then peers through the box and gives a faint shrug. "Just looks like a bunch of his stuff. Nothing particularly of interest, at least, here. Wanna look through the other boxes?"

ShadowHawk bends to open the box, he pauses for a moment then quickly opens it. He stares for less than a moment before jumping and falling back onto stone of the floor pointing at the box. "There was something in there!" is all he says.

After pushing a bunch of other boxes away from the one particular box at the bottom of the pile, ShadowHawk the curious little gnome pops open the box he screams but doesn't jump back in time as an apparition comes jetting out of the box right through ShadowHawks head, a maniacal laugh can be heard as the ghost continues moving right back up the stairs to where the library is. The basement is left in silence.

"What is..." Gelthagar's question is answered in mere moments as the apparition floats away quickly, before he has a chance to turn it. "Well. I guess we can stop looking. Now it's loose upstairs, which I'm sure the librarian will be quite unpleased about."

Pinnos nods to Illuminada, his motions as rapid as he can make them. He's eager to get to the bottom of this, as right now, they're all just sitting ducks to the literary bombardment. About to start searching, the gnome's antics instead draw his attention, as does the cackling spirit lurches off and up the stairwell. "After it!" he cries, his suspicions finally confirmed. He ain't afraid of no ghost, apparently.

Meyla pulls her bow up and cocks her head to the side as she looks at the box, as if expecting something to jump out. She frowns a bit, pulling a different arrow from her quiver and looks at the others, "Think that was what is causing the problems? The Ghost?" she starts looking like she is going to try and follow it, wondering if she can remember anything about ghosts and even if she can hurt it.

ShadowHawk grabs up the first book that was thrown at him and puts it into his book bag, before starting to climb the stairs. "Well I guess we've found the cause of the strange happenings in the basement and fixed the problem since he left the basement." He then pats the book in the bag "But he did want me to read this so I think I'll take it home to read and bring it back in a few days." With that he starts climbing the stairs humming as he goes.

The Paladin was almost going to comment on the book taking, but then remembered that this was, after all, a library, and that people borrowed books frequently. He, himself, makes his way up the stairs, hoping he could do some good. He had nothing to attack ghosts with aside from the few powers granted to him by his god, but hopefully it'd be enough.

Running up the stairs after the ghost you find the door at the top of the stairs closed and locked.

Illuminada looks startled by the appearance of the ghost. She snorts, and then starts after Pinnos. The door is locked, so she winds up on the stairs, scowling.

Meyla nods, "Knock on the door, if it doesn't open we will need to break through."

Pinnos is likely not the first to make it up the stairs, being weighed down as he is, but when he does finally arrive, the door is tested with a firm shove. At Meyla's suggestion, he does give it a sound rap with one gauntlet.

ShadowHawk pushes up through the legs of the biguns to get to the door, Knock knock knock. "Hey we're still in here can you let us out now?" he shouts through the door.

A few moments pass before a key is heard in the lock in the door, it swings out as it's opened by the same librarian that had unlocked it earlier. "All done, you take care of whatever was down there?" she asks a pleasant smile on her face as she stands there as if nothing is amiss

ShadowHawk nods "Yep there is nothing down there now but books and other artifacts, the ghost came up here. You only asked us to fix down there tho so the job is done" he awards her with another prized smile before heading toward the library door.

Illuminada looks annoyed. "No, madam. It appears a ghost was messing with the books down there. Nothing was destroyed but it threw a goodly number of them at us. And, it's made it's way up here, now." She moves through the door, of course, looking for the ghost. "Oh dear."

"Madam," Gelthagar begins, ignoring the gnome's rude comments, "Are you saying you didn't see anything fly through the door here?" He has some suspicions, now, but no way to confirm them. "I would think such a mischievous spirit wouldn't have gone unnoticed by your watchful eyes."

Meyla cocks her head to the side and purses her lips, "Can ghosts possess people?"

Pinnos leaves Illuminada and the others to do the talking, peering at the librarian oddly; she surely saw -something-. The pleasant smile she sports does little to reassure him. Something is definitely up.

The librarian blinks a few times taking in what's been said and then she frowns "Nothing came up here I've been standing here just over there" she points just a couple feet away on the other side of the stone doorway. "What do you mean books were tossed around?" this seems to worry her "I stated before that some of those books are priceless" she exclaims.

Meyla cocks her head to the side a little, "Yes, we hear that, and it was not us who threw the books."

Illuminada does her best to smile at the librarian's words. "Oh, yes, we are aware, and when we could, they were caught. The ghost, I fear, had no respect for the knowledge they held." Her teeth are almost gritted. She glances between Meyla, Pinnos, and Gelthagar, "*Can* ghosts do that? Even if they could, I don't think they did." "Indeed, we tried to protect as many as we good, but some ghostly creature was tossing them at us." Gelthagar frowned, "I apologize for that profusely, of course. We did our best, but I must confess two of them bounced off of me and landed on the ground." To Illuminda he shrugs, whispering, "I'm not too sure. I've heard stories, but never seen it myself."

The librarians eyebrows go up in sort of a shocked wonder as she seems more worried about the books at this point. She looks as thought she's unsure what to say to the group of them "You did pick them back up and put them away, right?" she asks Gelthagar after a few moments.

The cleric shrugs back to Illuminada, his pauldrons clattering with the gesture. He surely knows a little of disembodied spirits, but as to the extent of their capabilities, he's no expert. "Good lady," he offers the librarian. "We at least appear to have exorcised the entity from your basement archives, and so ensured the safety of your collection. I would remain here for the day, and assist in any cleanup, if it suits you." And to keep an eye on things, of course.

Sheepishly, and blushing behind his army, Gelthagar admits, "No, ma'am, I'm afraid the ghost ran up these stairs and we made to follow, feeling our duty was to exorcise what was causing this distress to begin with so it would not return again and cause more problems or destroy any more books. I had fully intended to return and clean up, and will do so now if you feel our commitment to you is complete in this matter."

Meyla shakes her head, "Are you sure you haven't seen a ghost?"

Illuminada lets out a sigh and she gives a glance to Pinnos. "Mayhaps you'd like to pick them up now, good lady, whilst we go see if we can't find the apparition?" And she's looking around, expecting to see books flying.

Looking more the stoic librarian "I should say so" she says seeming disappointed, she turns to Meyla "Yes I'm quite certain that nothing came through that door except you" she looks again to the group. "Now I think it's best to go back downstairs and clean up whatever mess that was made down there" she looks towards the gnome that heads for the door "Including you young man or I will forbid you taking that book that you have in your bag. Now down we go" she says sounding like a stern matron. "I'm sure this ghost you speak of will show themselves again, especially if you've let it out of the basement"

Meyla frowns for a moment and moves to head back down the stairs, she hasn't put up her bow yet. She makes it all the way down the stairs.

Duly admonished, Pinnos turns to head back down the steps, and will do so, provided the others are following. He casts a glance towards the librarian now and again, frowning a bit, but otherwise keeping his own council.

Illuminada offers, "Perhaps you ought to show us the proper way to shelve the books?" She's not going down just yet, waiting until the lady goes.

Gelthagar does likewise, only regretting that he had let the books hit the floor to begin with, and that the spirit had escaped. Perhaps, though, the spirit is now free and can find its own way to the afterlife, rather than haunt a room of musty old books.

ShadowHawk spins around at the threat of not being able to take a book to read and heads back toward the door to the basement. He leaves the bag with the book in it by the door before entering the stairway, "Do you want them shelved or put back into the piles they were in?" is heard from the stairwell as he bounces down.

The librarian slips through the door way and heads down the stairs as well "They were all on shelves except for those that were still in the boxes" she says to the gnome as he goes down the stairs.

The librarian puts a few things of the wizards aside as the others shelf the books that were laying strewn about. After giving an appraising look around the room she gives a curt nod "Well that looks much better" she says the pleasant smile returning to her face again "I've put aside these couple of things that the library would just normal put into the traders, you may have your pick of them, as well as for being mature enough to stay and helping clean this mess back up I have a small payment for all of you" she says before heading back towards the stairwell "I'll leave the door at the top of the stair open for you, I have some work to get back to now" she stops and turns back to the small group "Thank you" she smiles and heads back up stairs.

Gelthagar wasn't sure what kind of book he would enjoy, but he hopes the wizard had something on religion. Or law. Law would be good. As for the payment, he would normally refuse, but he has some plans, and he gives Pinnos a knowing nod. "Something useful here for children, perhaps?"

Illuminada gets on with cleaning up the books, being careful straighten mussed pages. She then peers over the selection of books, giving a faint nod to Gelthagar and a smile to Pinnos.

ShadowHawk has been busy picking up books and handing them to whatever bigun was nearby to shelve since there is only so far he can reach. After the books are collected he then lifts the boxes that he pushed over and puts them back into a neat pile. He then moves over to look at the items left behind for him to choose from.

Pinnos, upon reaching the bottom, stoops to pick up the tome that managed to connect with his ear. As the librarian addresses them, he nods his thanks, and whilst still a bit suspicious, she was the one who unlocked the door for them. He runs a finger across the cover of the book he holds, brushing dust from the title, and generally making sure its still in one piece. "Ye Divers Nurserie Rhymes of Olde," he reads, then looking up and meeting Gelthagar's knowing smile. Fancy that.

Meyla cocks her head to the side a little, and looks over the things for a moment, the boots she compares to her own and then giggles a little.

ShadowHawk swings the cloak around his shoulders just to see it shrink to fit him, then heads upstairs to talk to the librarian. He stops at the top of the stairs to collect his bag again then moves to find her.