"You're so bright, I swear you swallowed the Sun. And I am so in awe, just basking in your light. But I am just the one who swallowed the moon. The only light that I have's just a reflection of you. And the only thing I know is I wanna know what it'...
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Not much time had passed since they started looking through the books that belonged to William Minerva. It was pretty silent, except for the occasional talking about what the marks could possibly be. They knew that there had to be something else to these marks. They could just be saying who the books used to belong to, but they doubted it. The four of them were now just looking at each of the owl symbols on the inside of the books that were laying before them.
"William Minerva, huh..," Norman picked up one of the books, "Wait... So this logo..."
Emma pointed at him with a smile, "It's called an ex librus!"
"Um..," Alex trailed off. She turned her head to look at the orange-haired girl with an expression of puzzlement, "Emma. I don't think that's it."
"Ex libris," Ray hit Emma's hand with his hand, "You mean. The attached piece of paper that shows who owns a book," He pointed behind him at all the other books in the large library, "This library is actually filled with his books. The ones Emma brought here are only a small portion of his collection that we have access to."
"I can't believe I didn't notice something up with them before," Alex stated. She had been reading William Minerva's books for a while now and never even thought anything about it. It was crazy how she could miss something that was so obvious. It was literally right in front of her face every time she opened one of his books.
"So... What about this 'secret message' you mentioned before?" Norman inquired.
Emma opened up one of the books, "Look closely at all of these marks."
Norman looked over at the book she was holding. He analyzed the mark for a moment until the realization seemed to hit him, "Wait a minute, these circles..," Emma replied with a 'Yup!' which made Alex curious about what they were talking about. Alex came over to see what they were talking about. Was the circle... "They're diagrams in morse code!" Norman confirmed her thoughts.
"Correct," Ray responded while Emma nodded.
"This William Minerva guy must be really smart," Alex commented. Who else would have thought about making an ex libris into a message in morse could? William Minerva must've also had a lot of faith that they would be able to figure out the message.
Ray started to translate the morse code, "R.U.N. D.O.U.B.T. D.A.N.G.E.R. T.R.U.T.H."
"But with just these words, we can't really-" Norman started.
Ray cut her off, "You tryna say that we can't just assume these secret messages were necessarily meant for us?" That was a valid concern. It might've also just been a mistake in the logo. Maybe it wasn't actually a message.
