"Unless what impresses me is your ability to decipher it at all," Ari parried. "But never fear - if you find me something usable, I will be be even more impressed." She picked up the blue book as instructed and opened its wide cover. There were a great many illustrations which, actually, suited her well enough. After all, she knew what the beast looked like.
Silence descended as she flipped through the pages slowly, taking note of the creatures cataloged there. The words were somewhat difficult to read, seeming to be in an older form of the language currently spoken in this part of Valendia, but she could make out some of them.
She stopped near the back of the book, there were a few illustrations here, some quite small, but... She examined the image this way and that. The angle of the head was all wrong and the horns were missing altogether, but the wolfish snout was certainly familiar. Next to him, a woman - or something that looked a little like a woman with blue skin and a severe but lovely face - was pictured. "This seems interesting," she murmured, attempting to work out the words on the page, of which there were, sadly, quite few.