Heaven on Earth {open to all}

As Hayward shuffled towards the table, the pile of books in his hands began to shift. Hayward leaned a bit to the sized to compensate, but that just caused the books to start sliding the other way. In order to prevent them from falling, Hayward speeded up until he quite literally bumped into the table. Half the books fell from his stack, clattering on the table in front of him.

With a sigh, Hayward put down the books he’d managed to keep a hold of and started picking up the ones he’d dropped. Most had landed on the table, but one of them had fallen to the floor. It was the one about the Aurora founders and the slim volume had fallen beneath the table. Hayward crouched down to grab it, only to discover to his horror that loose sheets of parchment were lying next to the open book. For one heart stopping moment, Hayward thought he’d managed to wreck a book in his first week, before he realized that there was no way that the book was handwritten and the text on the parchments clearly was. With a sigh of relief, Hayward picked up both the book and the papers.

After he’d taken a seat at the table, Hayward started looking at the notes he’d found. They were interesting reading. Clearly someone was working on researching the Aurora founders and had left their notes behind in the book. Something about the handwriting looked familiar as well. Hayward went back to the first page of notes, trying to remember where he’d seen the handwriting before. When it hit him, he almost smacked himself for being so stupid. It was professor Morrow’s handwriting, which made sense since he was the History of Magic professor and probably doing research like this all the time.

“I’d better bring these back to the professor once I’m done here,” Hayward mumbled to himself as he carefully placed the notes in his bag. “He’s probably going crazy looking for these.” At least, that was what Hayward would do if he lost any of his notes.

With the notes safely stowed in his bag, Hayward pulled the book on the founders towards him. The professor’s notes had made him curious, so that was a good place to start his reading.