Andrew sat down at the table and began reading one passage after another. Some of the books he set aside in a growing pile of information useless in the current circumstance.

He did however find encouragement that keeping his skin from drying might ease some of his discomfort - though his situation was exponentially greater than those mentioned in the book. He went to gather some cloth scraps from a closet downstairs and made his way into the kitchen, expecting nothing out of the ordinary.