"It would be wisest, but I can claim to be studying it. I might have to ask you to deliver it back hurriedly if my master asks about it, but I can usually delay a day or two, given how messy my room can get. Anyhow, yeah nobody here explains rules because its usually impossible to take anything past the guards. Most books here are marked with some seal and if you try and take them out of palace you might get struck by the<em>Animated Armor</em>that the last court mage before the Archmage created." He frowned. "That being over two hundred years ago. Old 'mask'  has been at his post longer than a human, but denies any accusations of high elven blood as well as lichdom."<br/><br/>He let out a sigh. "Not that it matters. Only queen usually has any private time with the archmage. Something about the noble houses afraid that the mage might take over and rule the kingdom, but the Queen is so stubborn I bet he'd be over her knee if she even thought he tried to take over instead. Besides, I hear if the queen has a daughter or son one day, he's the first choice for a tutor. He has some kind of a 'no nonsense' policy about magic. No painting pretty portraits about it, he tells you how it works, why it does so, and hammers the logic in you. Kind of scary in a way, he does away with all the 'safe fluff' that others like to write."