Adeline slowly cracked the book open. Lately, Aunt Eleanor had forbade her to read in bed, since she needed her "beauty sleep." However, no amount of rest could change Adeline's somber stare.
"Let's see… where did I leave off?" Adeline had randomly selected a book from the shelves. It would have been a lot smarter if she had used the flashlight first, before picking from her enormous selection.
"Too late to regret that now," she mumbled.
Adeline double-checked the front cover. "The Rise of Xueyue," she muttered.
Blinking curiously, she recalled it was a historical bibliography from centuries upon centuries ago. Judging from the thickness of the novel, it was not the abridged version.
"Oh, found it!" Adeline's page flipping had finally come to a halt. Her bookmark was stuck through the center of the pages, the thin metal outlines depicting a soaring phoenix with a long, feathery tail.
