Sylas casually strolled through the markets and posts. True to his word, he didn't show any sign of trying to break into Egypt.
He circled through everything once, and the atmosphere felt odd. The merchants and scholars seemed a bit on edge, but Sylas spoke with them as though he didn't notice that anything was wrong at all. Then, he returned to the carriage for the day to rest.
…
"Do any of you know anything about the Library of Alexandria?" Sylas asked with a calm look in his eye.
He was speaking with Alex and the others. Now that he thought about it, he didn't really know their backgrounds at all. For all he knew, there was a historian in their midst that he could take advantage of.
Though it was said that Split Realms had skewed reflections of what had once happened, that didn't mean that such knowledge wouldn't be helpful.
Unfortunately, he wasn't so lucky.
