[quote=YamiCuoreLaroux]
"I guess...yes. I would like knowledge, please." Even though he was still a bit scared, his mother had been very good at drilling manners into him. Besides, the last thing he wanted was to make this creature angry. He had enough ahead of him to worry about without adding on something that could have been that easily avoided.
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the creature contemplates him for a bit before patting his head with a bony hand in an oddly fatherly manner before reaching into it's robes to retreive a small, leather bound book and hand it to stefan, waving to an open door way for him to pass before returning to it's slumber in it's chair