Downtime: Adric's Studies

"So? Are you going to buy this?" Ojak tapped the tome he'd been trying to sell Adric before impatiently. Adric rolled his eyes and nodded, "A deal's a deal, right? Anyway, it just so happens I'm in the mood for some reading material today."
Ojak perked up when Adric said that and was no doubt about to make some recommendations when Adric cut in, pulling out a folded note, "I have a list of research materials I require, and of course I thought of you."
He slipped the paper across the stall front to Ojak, who narrowed his eyes at Adric before scanning the list with his eyes. He muttered grumpily at a few, though Adric noted that he also nodded and made pleased sounds in his throat at other items. When he was done, Ojak grunted and nodded, "I believe I do have some of these texts in stock, give me a moment."
Ojak vanished behind his stall and Adric heard him muttering to himself as he rooted through his stocks. Eventually Ojak reappeared with a stack of tomes, which he set on the counter next to 'Bindings, Releases, and Eldritch Bondage', which he then set on top of the stack rather pointedly. Adric sighed, having to stand on tip toe as he inspected the stack to see what was there. Satisfied that Ojak wasn't trying to slip in something else in which he had no interest - although most likely, these were mostly the texts Ojak himself would have liked Adric to buy - he slipped his backpack off his shoulders in order to pack the items away and asked, "Okay, how much?"

Upon his return to the lair, Adric set the backpack on top of his desk in the workshop and opened it up, setting each book down in a pile there, except for 'Bindings, Releases, and Eldritch Bondage'. That one he eyed distrustfully and set to the side, away from the rest of the tomes. He then took off his cloak and set it over his chair. He stepped out and headed to his sleeping area, where he pulled out his personal research journal from its hiding place there. With the journal in hand, he returned to the workshop, retrieved some writing implements, and sat down to crack open the first book.