I stood, taking a stretch, and moved toward the stacks. If only I was at St. Ailbe’s. They had an extensive library, and all the books were listed on the intranet and tagged by subject. I picked up one of the books on top of the pile. “Healing the Soul by Ty Bannon. How in the hell is that supposed to help me?” I threw the book to the side. Feidhelm was a jerk.

After three more books that were clearly off topic, I called Adrian. Maybe I couldn’t get to St. Ailbe’s to do my research, but he could. He was still on campus, except he wasn’t answering. When I looked at the time, I realized why. He was probably starting his evening patrol.

But there was one other person I could try. She was still at St. Ailbe’s while it was officially closed. I put my phone on speaker while the call tried to connect.

“Claudia!” I said as soon as she picked up.

“Is everything okay?”

I winced. “Uh, kind of not really, but I’m alive, so it’s all good.”

“Yeah. Alive is good…”

“I’m sorry to ask, but I need help.” I gave her the quick version of what’d happened since I got to Ireland. “Any chance you can look up some stuff for me about Bhrunyz? I know you’re taking off for Peru soon, and I don’t want to keep you. I just need book titles. I probably have copies here, but I can’t sort through everything, and I have no idea how to use this card system or if it even has an index as extensive—”

“Yes,” she said, cutting off my rambling. God, I was getting tired. “Of course. I’m up now. I’ll go straight to the library.”

I sighed as I slouched into the nearest chair. “Thanks. I owe you one.”

“I’ll add it to your tab.”

I laughed. “Let me know when you find something.”

“As soon as I do, I’ll call you. Or I guess if it’s late your time, I could email?”

“No. I don’t have any Internet access here. Just call anytime.” I needed the information as soon as she had it and not a second later.

“Okay. Talk soon.”

“’Bye.” I hung up and went back to the table with my mountain of books. Eenie, meenie, miney… I grabbed a random book from the third towering stack. The Fey Courts: An Introduction to Fey Policies and Politics.

Yeah. Not helpful, library douche.

My phone vibrated on the table. I answered, putting it on speaker. “You found something already?” I switched over to my notes app, ready to take down names of books.

“Not exactly,” Claudia said. “Lucas knows of Bhrunyz.”