Chapter 112 - Hidden laboratory? Check
“Is everyone ready?” Scarlett asked, her gaze moving over the others beside her, stopping on Allyssa. The girl blinked, looking up from the book she had been reading, her eyes then darting between Scarlett and the entrance that had opened up in the wall.
“Oh, eh, kinda?” she said.
“Find anything interesting in there?” Rosa asked, pointing at the book.
Allyssa looked down at it, running a finger over its half-yellowed pages. For some reason, it didn’t seem to be in as good condition as the other books here. “I’m still reading through it. It seems to be a journal mostly containing this Lord Abelard guy’s daily musings. Some of his thoughts, though, they’re a bit…strange.”
"Strange as in scaring-servants-by-walking-around-in-undies-strange, or as in lives-in-a-mansion-filled-with-homicidal-dolls-strange?”
“Both?” Allyssa sounded uncertain. “I don’t quite understand all of it yet. I’m hoping it’ll start making sense soon.”
Rosa turned to Scarlett. “You know something about that?”
“Not much more than Miss Astrey will learn from that journal, I would venture,” Scarlett answered. “However, Abelard was a deranged man. That much I can tell you.”
“Really?” The bard held up a hand to her mouth. “Who would have thought?”
Scarlett eyed the woman for a moment before turning back to the others. “If that is all, then I propose we continue.”
“Is it fine if we bring some of the books here?” Shin asked, gesturing to the bookshelves around them. “There’s no telling what could be in them.”
She considered it for a couple of seconds. Books could be worth a pretty penny. And all these were at minimum 150 years old. That either meant they were totally worthless, or worth more than your average book, so it might indeed be worth gathering some of them up.