The red-haired mage let out a sigh at James' idea of reading the books some day. "No can do," Maddox said first. "Those books are gone." To elaborate what he meant by [I]gone[/I], Maddox made a fist and flicked his fingers out rapidly. A gesture similar in appearance to an explosion. "I'd love to have kept reading them." The serious expression vanished and the grin was back. "But oh well. Such is life. Plenty of books in shelves. Hell, we might even have some books on rare magic in our own archive. But I haven't been down there in a loooong time. Kinda scary with all the cobwebs." Chuckling at his own joke, Maddox stretched his arms and put his hands behind his head. "But you want to learn more about Paladin Magic? Is it that you want to learn its history or have you not mastered it yet?"