He grins, a bit sheepishly. "Maybe?" he says, as they return to the desks. "Though I'll try to approach them as if I knew nothing at all. What the students choose to write in and leave out is of interest to them, and thus to me as well. In addition, I've no doubt the natives who live here can tell me more than my brief time scanning books."

That said, he lifts a page and begins to read. He nods twice at something in the piece, and withdraws his quill from his pocket.