20AdieAdie closed the door to her chambers, happy to be returning safely to her room. I can’t wait to tell Aura we found the hidden library! Samuel dropped the books they’d checked out onto her bed. “Which ones did we get?” “The History of Vadim, The Desert of Time, that carved one with the flower, and the one that almost killed us,” Samuel said, pointing at the large black book. Adie flipped through The History of Vadim, narrowing her eyes at the pages. “What is it?” Samuel asked. “Not sure. Looks like a series of drawings. Maybe a map,” Adie said questioningly as she flipped through the handwritten pages filled with drawings. She flipped past a page where she saw a tree and made her way back to it. There on the page was a beautifully drawn willow tree with a cloud of smoke coming

