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She doubted that she would find a more entertaining book than that one for a good long while.

But in any event, here and now, she decided to grab a couple more of the books that Ibai had written before following him and Chergoa to the refectory.

She read while she walked, now able to divide her attention between the words on the page and the pathway in her upper peripheral vision. She was fully aware of the abnormality of this now, thanks to Hector bringing it up once before.

It was Focus. The "blessing" that Rasalased had referred to.

She'd been trying to discover more about blessings as well. In fact, that was perhaps at the top of her priorities now.

But such information was not easy to find. She'd tried to pick up every book she saw with "blessing" in the title, but it seemed to be an extremely common word among ancient toms, especially religious texts. Most of them ended up being about moral philosophy or some such thing, and she was frequently disappointed to see that they had absolutely nothing to do with the subject she was actually interested in.

Hector, however, had specifically asked her about a blessing called Domain, so she tried zeroing in on that word as well, and as a result, she had recently found a particularly dense volume of work called The Domain of Gods and Kings by Liam Larutin.

She didn't know why so many of these ancient authors seemed to have alliterative pen names, but she'd begun to think it must have been some sort of fasionable trend.

In any case, she was still trying to make her way through that book. It was absurdly verbose and difficult to wrap her head around, leaving her quickly exhausted each time she sat down to read it. She intended to keep trying, though.