eight breaks of the stone

[craggyfaced]

[Durge can be found in the library today, settled into an armchair with a book open on his lap. He's wearing a rather intense look on concentration on his face as he flips a page, as well as a large, purple, curly-tailed cat draped across the back of his muscular shoulders.

He's also muttering softly to himself, and perhaps hasn't noticed that his Pokemon has flipped the journal open with her tail.]

If these things called 'ah-toms' are so small, how does one know they exist at all?

Meow

I do not understand either, Miss Maudie. I imagine Lady Grace could have explained it to me, if I had known back then to ask...

[The cat trills and the knight pauses to pat her on the head before turning back to his reading with a sigh]