"I asked around. Den Arvon is one of the mages. Interested in history, apparently." Mina hesitates just inside the stairwell, out of her parents' sight, listening to her father. "What does Jakin have to do with that?" asks her mother. "No idea. But it must be linked to the visit last week. I should never have let him go with the book thieves." Mina can hardly believe her ears. Jakin was a book thief? And her father knew? "But he's been so much happier," her mother says. "That's the point, isn't it?"