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Mali looked through the books idly, just waiting for her eye to catch something for whatever reason, be it a catchy title or perhaps an interesting topic that she'd want to spring for. The first to grab her attention was a humble paperback text titled [i]The Way's Dream.[/i] The cover was adorned with a watercolor-looking painting of a highly-decorated man standing at the top of an ornate staircase looking down at a sharply dressed businesswoman who seemed at once enraptured and averse to the central figure. On the back, a short plot synopsis rvealed that the book was about Janet McPhee, driven businesswoman whose goal is to climb the corporate ladder even at the expense of her own social life and health. One day she accidentally meets Jordan Huxley, an astronaut with a fondness for children. Their relationship begins as a matter of begrudging indifference, but evolves into obsessive love. However, all is not as it seems, as a secret organization strives to bring them apart. 

Well, it was weird, but maybe it would be better than the synopsis implied. It probably wasn't, but curiosity had gotten the better of her. The next title she picked from the shelf wasn't a stranger, but more of an old friend: [i]The Rising Dragon,[/i] the first in a trilogy of YA novels that were really popular when Mali was an adolescent. The book revolved around Ordinary High School Student Min Chao, who discovers that she's the most recent selection in an ancestral line to seal the tyrant Chiyou for 1000 years and prevent ruin. 

It was one of those book series to get picked up for a movie adaptation, but the first movie was so bad that they never adapted the other two books. Which was a good and bad thing, less visibility for a good series, but also no more chances to shit all over the source material. Then again, the books might have always been trash and her immature taste at the time colored her perception of how good they were. Well only one way to find out.

Putting her wandering eye to rest, Mali searched out if Zoie happened to have any books on Ancient Greece. This wasn't for entertainment purposes, but looking for more clues. Relic mentioned earlier that that necklace was dug up there. Perhaps she could find something related to it. Or at the very least shore up her deficiencies in knowledge surrounding that time and place. While she was at it, Mali looked for Ancient Rome texts as well. Juno was Jupiter's wife, conspiracy members were branded with the Roman astrological symbols for Venus and Mars, or female and male respectively, the Romans had a hard on for Classical Greek culture, there was little chance that this was all coincidence so she might as well try to cover her historical bases.