“I don’t know why,” says Rexa, her voice dripping with sarcasm, “but I thought your master plan was going to involve something more exciting than research.”
I hide a smile as I peruse the textbook in my hands. “Not every part of an adventure can be wild action and heart-stopping battles. A good story has calm parts.”
“A boring story, maybe,” she grumbles, slouching down the row and yanking random tomes from the marble shelves.
“There must be time for character development,” I say, consulting the book’s weathered pages. The Eldrians have different runes (which I’ve memorized), but our language is the same. The fact that Eldrian is actually American English doesn’t make sense, but I don’t want to consider the implications of that strange coincidence. “Part of the Hero’s Journey is that th
