"Arghhh!" Maria roared in frustration and hurled the book across the room, pushing back the strands of hair that had fallen to obstruct her vision. She was now in her dorm room, and just as she had expected, things weren't going to be easy. She glanced once more at the book she had thrown away.
Blank.
The pages were all blank.
"It seems he placed some rune on it," she muttered, biting her nail in frustration. She had suspected he would place some sort of protection on the book—after all, it contained future knowledge of this world. It was supposed to be their plan B, designed for a specific scenario: if a future event occurred and something happened to him, she would be able to read this book, understand everything, and recreate the plans he had already made with the others.
But instead of the distant future this contingency was prepared for, they found themselves in exactly that situation now. Something had indeed happened to him.
