Anthony took out a Fire Dragon Skin Notebook. Its cover had been cared for until it gleamed, giving off a warm, gentle sheen.
He quickly flipped through the pages. Every sheet not only held newspaper clippings, but was also packed with line after line of handwriting.
Michael widened his eyes, trying to make out the contents of the clippings. "Are all of these... those news reports?"
"You actually wrote this much?" Chris swallowed. "Why does it feel about the same as Vizet... Where do you all get so much time?"
"I can't compare to him!" Anthony found the page he needed. "You've seen Vizet's notebooks, haven't you?"
"Even though he only uses the most ordinary notebooks, the rate at which he replaces them... who knows how high they'd be if they were piled up."
"That's true..." Chris nodded. "But you've recorded a lot too. It's still pretty impressive."
"It's just a hobby." Having his efforts praised by his dormmates, Anthony broke into a grin. "When I'm tired from studying, doing this perks me right up!"
"Look here!" he said, pointing at the clippings on the page. "The ones on the left are news from the past two years, and the ones on the right are news from the last month or two... What do they have in common?"
"Quite a lot, actually..." Terry's gaze moved back and forth. "These two clippings at the top not only both happened in Congo, they're also both incidents related to Tebo Warthogs."
"The other clippings too!" Michael chimed in. "They all happened in Burkina Faso, and they're all about smuggling Runespoors..."
Chris shrugged. "Michael said what I wanted to say..."
Anthony said, "Then you can analyze what differences exist between these incidents that happened in the same places."
Chris frowned slightly and reached up