Duncan put the book back and checked the other furnishings in the room, but didn't find anything of value—the room was sparsely furnished and appeared to be seldom used. The most valuable clues were that book and the two old notebooks in the desk drawer.
The notebooks were filled with content related to steam mechanics and engineering principles, with occasional complaints about certain teachers or classmates interspersed throughout.
This made it easy to deduce that the occupant was a young person of school-going age.
Duncan slowly sifted through the fragments of memory in his mind, and after restoring everything in the room to its original state, he returned to the master bedroom.
After sitting on the edge of the bed and pondering for a while, he stood up and approached the nearby wardrobe, almost instinctively pulling open a drawer, guided by muscle memory.
