<span style="font-style: italic">How very strange..</span>Akiada thought as he looked at the image and then read the text on the right page next to it. He wondered if the castle might perhaps be related to the maze he was in somehow - perhaps the maze was below it? Also worthy of some thought was the sentence, which after reading silently a few times he read aloud, making corrections as he believed it was supposed to read. "March onward my faithful accomplices, create mine kingdom, nines, we only need nine."<br/><br/><span style="font-style: italic">Nine what? For what? Maybe the rest of the text has clues..</span>he thought, reaching forward to turn the pages.