🍁Nine Ancient Obelisks

The dog tilted its head to the side in confusion and whimpered something incomprehensible to the human.
- These searches may take more than one day, are you sure you have time for them? - The voice clearly belonged to Inak, not the Dog.

—Actually, I really don't… —the scholar sighed disappointedly. —What could be more important than searching for an unfortunate girl? Perhaps this insensitive egoist considers his scientific reports more important than anything else; you might think he would, but… Believe it or not, I need to help someone else, so I really can't stay for long. —he scratched his head guiltily. —So, what did he sense? I can leave you a book, in case you can't get to the observatory.