Wayward (Prince Arthur x Oc)

Chapter 4: In which a plan forms

Edda had to physically stop herself from her excitement shining trough as she returned to Arthur with the list in hand.

"I have good and bad news bud," she said as she approached the table covered in books. "This library don't have all the books I need to figure out the curse, but it has given me a list of locations that, possibly, does."

Arthur looked up at her possibly a bit bummed that she hadn't found a way to cure him, but also a bit intrigued by what she said.

"You mean that we're going to have to travel to these other libraries?"

She laughed slightly, just stifling her cackle, as she sat down. "Yeah, turns out that old Aspen was on to something with the tour guide thing." She held out the list for him to read. "Because I'm going to have to give you a bit of a tour of this kingdom as we walk from library to library."

He looked over the locations on the list before looking up at her.

"Are all of these inside of the kingdom?"

"Yeah, the libraries system only pertain to the libraries in the kingdom, so they can't really tell us that much about any libraries outside of it," She shrugged a bit. "I mean, unless you can tell me of any locations where we might find any relevant books in outside of this kingdom." It would be pretty useful, since she couldn't be sure how different the collections would be in other kingdoms libraries and if there could be anything useful in them.

However Arthur just shook his head. "I could maybe ask a pal of mine if he knew any?"

"That would help," but she did not dare to stay at the town for too long to wait for any mail so, "let's just start out looking in this kingdoms libraries first ok?"

"Alright," Arthur stood up in his chair again to put them both at eye level. "Where to first Miss?"

"This library does have maps, but," she looked down at the table, "maybe we should clear the table first."

Arthur glanced at the table to before nodding. "Right."

They spent the rest of the time at the library, after clearing the table of books and putting them back to their correct spots, planning out the course they where going to take.

The list had three different locations on it, Hävelösa, Bergleva and Endeslättaren. The closest to where they were was Hävelösa, so it was quickly decided that it would be the place they go to first. The other two was after that pretty much equally close to Hävelösa, but since Edda knew that Endeslättaren had a much larger library than Bergleva, they should go there first, and then look at Bergleva if they found nothing at Endeslättaren.

Happy about the plans they put the library map in it's place (Edda did have a travel map at home after all), and exited the library.

It was a bit past three as their eyes meet the outside sun again, they had been in the library longer than they both seemed to realise and while Edda had initially planned to go tell her landlord and the lady in charge of the weekly market of her temporary departure, they found themselves taking a short detour to get something to eat.

While waiting for their food from the local cafe, Arthur spotted framed autograph on the wall.

"You've had some famous person come by here before?" Then he squinted his eyes a bit at it, "Wait a tic, isn't that-"

"Oh, yes it's from one of the F7!" The Lady behind the counter, Mrs Johannesson, said. "Our daughter was really into them when she was younger, so old Enon was kind enough to get an autograph from one of them on one of his travels."

Edda rolled her eyes a bit, she remembered the whole F7 craze like it was yesterday, people were nuts over them. Of course it was a pretty short lived craze considering F7 tendency towards what could be seen as pointless violence, as well as the fact that they never ever sat a single foot inside the kingdom.