Beneath the sheet of paper lay a book. Its cover had the texture of parchment and looked like something from the last century. The title was Sailor Pick's Diary.
Schiller opened the book and found that many pages were missing. Setting aside those gaps, the contents could roughly be summarized as follows: a man named Pick boarded a large ship and became a sailor. Along the way, they encountered a storm, but fortunately, they made landfall in time under the guidance of a lighthouse.
The passage had neither beginning nor end and made little sense. If it had any connection at all, it might have been related to the village's lighthouse. But with so much missing, there was no way to tell whether the lighthouse they encountered was the Great Snow-Covered Lighthouse.
Yet Schiller instinctively felt that the story was important, because the section with the most pages torn out was the description of the storm.
Schiller felt that Old Siltec must have had some reason for placing this note and this book together. Had he discovered some conspiracy involving the church from this book?
Unable to make anything of it, Schiller put away both the note and the book, then began investigating the shelves for more information.
His Document Reading skill finally came in handy. The books here were not all in English; there were also many in obscure languages. With that skill, he could understand them without even needing to make a check.
At last, Schiller found an important clue in a book on the bottom shelf titled Record of Major Insurance Incidents Over a Century.
The book mentioned that around eighty years ago—judging by the present era, possibly around 1930—a major safety incident occurred at a hotel in Massachusetts. The accident killed more than 230 guests and