The next morning, Lilian already walked deep beneath the Citadel, between the towering shelves of the archives.
Dante pulled an iron bound book from a shelf from their right.
"We would need the original maps of the Eastern Territories from the 1700s," Dante said. "The Collector didn't just vanish back then. We should see where the old supply lines were."
She looked at the massive book in his hand and the thousands of others surrounding them. This part of the archive she never had visited before, and felt overwhelmed.
Looking at these ancient records made her realize how much she still had to learn. Her husbands had lived through this history, and they knew what to look for.
"Why the 1700s?" Lilian asked while stepping closer to Dante. She wanted to help, even though the timeline seemed to be far out of her reach.
