CHAPTER THIRTEEN
They spent another 20 days working their respective jobs while trying to gather any insights regarding that religious retreat. Siegfried remained hopeless. All customers grew quiet when he approached their tables. He did get better at getting orders right, but not so much so that anyone left any tips. He ultimately reconciled himself to his new reality and spent the time reciting in his head the words for the one spell he’d been able to decipher in the tome he kept in his backpack. He’d found the leather-bound book tucked away in his father’s great library. Instead of a book written in one language, it was as if some lackey had gathered pages from multiple books and then bound the pages together. At first, it was nothing more than a puzzle that helped Siegfried pass the t
