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“You’re also looking for others?”

“Also, for someone who does specialise in the Mid-Ancient Era,” Olivia added.

“I’m busy at the moment, but I can be at the Library after twelve.”

“Thanks.”

“Something else?” Hraffson asked.

“I’ll try to find someone who specialises in the period the manuscript is from.”


“OK. Mid-Ancient Era, also known as Aurora’s Bronze Age Period,” Olivia murmured, as she left the office. “May need to know when the Iron Age started.”


Back in the Library, Freya and Alexia returned to the Ancient Section.

“What did you find?” Talia asked.

“Some things,” Freya said, as she held up one of the books.

“The game guide in Auroric?” Talia asked.

“And Auroran,” Alexia added.

“So, we have the two points of view,” Freya added.

“A good idea, but will it help?” Talia asked.

“Of course it will,” Janara said.


Olivia found the second office she was looking for and knocked.

“Come in,” the professor said.

Olivia entered and saw that her room as cluttered with various maps, articles and artefacts. “Professor Marvinius?”

“Yes, and you are?”

“Olivia Marcus, first year History.”

“Why are you here?”

Olivia explained everything.


Professor Marvinius thought about what Olivia had said.

“There are things in this university that haven’t been touched for centuries, even millennia. This manuscript might have been one of them.”

“So, will you help?”

“Yes. I’ll see how this Freya has figured out the layout, but my specialty is the expansion of Urbs Aeterna’s influence during the Bronze Age period.”

“That’s fine,” Olivia said. “Let’s go.”


Back at the Library, Janara looked at Freya’s colourful mind map of the investigation again. It was chaotic but there was a pattern to it.

“Wait, you’re using the campus layout?” Janara asked.

“It must be on my mind. But this time, it’s the layout from a later era, towards the end of the Renaissance,” Freya responded.

“It’s like Aurora in general,” Janara mused.

“The layers of history,” Freya confirmed.

“But how does this help us know where to find the manuscript?” Talia asked.

“It’s probably in the core of the campus,” Alexia answered. “But that is still a large area.”

“We’ll probably need to know what was built when,” Freya said, as she wrote 1123 on the mind map. “Probably somewhere built before the Unification.”

“Or maybe,” Janara added as she wrote 810, before the Nordic Era in general. She looked at Alexia and Talia. “Was the campus extended in the Early Medieval Era?”

“What I know is that the end of the Roman Era may have been chaotic, but the Academy as it existed at that time was relatively unaffected,” Talia answered.

“That’s a good point,” Freya said. She looked at her tablet. “Oh.”

“What’s up?” Alexia asked as Freya took a photo of the mind map.

“I have class in twenty minutes,” as she handed over the mind map to Alexia.

“We’ll catch up later then,” Janara suggested.

“I’ll be sketching at Sigrun Sigurdottir Hall,” Freya said before waving and flouncing off.


Olivia, along with Professor Marvinus, arrived back in the Ancient Section near where the manuscript had been. She saw Janara and Alexia there. “Where’s Freya?” she asked.

“She had to go to class,” Janara answered. “But she made this mind map.”

Olivia looked at the mind map, but Freya’s multi coloured writing was too messy for her dyslexia. “I can’t…”

“I can read it out,” Janara responded.

“Go ahead,” Olivia said.

“Certainly,” Alexia said.


Professor Marvinus turned to Talia. “They are certainly eager.”

“It was mostly Freya,” Talia said.

“Really?”

“She has a lot of energy and is very enthusiastic.”

“Sounds like a handful,” Marvinus commented.


“What do you think?” Janara asked Olivia when she had finished reading out the mind map.

“We are going in the right direction, trying to work out what it means and where it might be hidden,” Olivia answered.

“But other than the core of the campus, we still have no idea where to look,” Alexia said.

“That’s a good point,” Olivia said.

Janara looked at a map of the campus on her tablet. The Main Library, the Central Plaza and some portions of the various Departments formed the core. “Show entire campus,” she said.

The screen zoomed out, showing the entire campus., including the dorms to the east and west. The overall campus layout resembled a fractal. ‘It probably was a fractal at some point,’ she thought. But did the fractal relate to the protection rune?

“The whole campus?” Alexia asked.

“Just looking at something,” Janara answered.


Freya hurried out of the Library via the Grand Atrium. She was sure that the others would figure some things out without her.