A few hours of wandering around found the Laizu standing before the clear glass doors of a library, a repository of human knowledge from what he could tell. Deciding this would be the best place to learn more about their kind, as his inquiries of passerby in the street about all the technology humanity had created had yielded indifference at best. Taking hold of the handle he pushed open the door and stepped inside to be greeted by the brisk kiss of a cooling unit and the scent of new books.

Ignoring the people manning the counter, he began perusing the shelves, eventually stumbling across the science and technology section. Picking out a modest selection of tomes, he made his way to an upholstered bench nearby and began to read, quickly finishing a book on machines a short time later. From there he went on to study textbooks on human biology-from which he gleaned a lot of useful information-physics, and other related topics.

Alastor left a couple of hours later, feeling a bit more knowledgeable about the accomplishments of the human race, primitive as they were. Twirling his cane as he walked along, he began making his way back to Andy's apartment as the sun laboriously clawing its way through the blue expanse overhead.