The book smiles "I will tell you everything I know, you can trust me!"

"Well", says Captain Merlo, "who wants to carry the book?"

Aldyne

"Not me," says Aldyne. "Even if it can't harm me, I would have destroyed it within the first couple of days, going mad from it's ramblings."

"I'll carry it." Ransel swallows a lump. Waiving the matter, he asks "When can we leave?"

Captain Merlo says "There isn't much else to do in town, you can leave anytime, if you know where you want to go."

"Where do we want to go, anyway?"

The old mage speaks, "Well, I have something in the oven". He departs the room back the same door he came in from.

The Captain says "We could go see if the prisoner has revealed anything".

"That's a good place to start." Ransel says, looking behind the odd mage leaving the room.

The book says to Ransel "Make sure you carry me face foward so that I can see where I am going!"

You leave the boat and docks and head to the main guard compound. Captain Merlo asks you to wait in the main lobby while he checks on the prisoner. He returns shortly.

"Unfortunately the prisoner died during interrogation, we believe from a slow acting poison he must have taken before the assassination."

"Before?" Ransel was a bit puzzled. "If he took a poison, why in the hells was he running away?.. An anti-poison? Payment? Does anyone else except the dead mage know where this temple is?"