Entry by Ruechari

You turn the letter over but there is nothing on the back. No hint as to who may have sent it or where they sent it to. Desperate to find clues you continue to flip through the rest of the book but there are no other loose pages.

Classified? Who would write a letter and make it classified? Must be government.

Your eyes drift to the strange coded message within the message. You remember reading about the American Indian Code Talkers used in World War II. Could this be some sort of strange code written in some other language? It's definitely not one that you recognize. Maybe the librarian would know it? Should you ask? Again the classified stamp glares at you, maybe not.

You read the note again, two words now stand out that you didn't pick up on when you first read it: centuries and species. Centuries? Who would be capable of protecting something for hundreds of years? No one could live that long unless the letter was written to some sort of secret society.

But then again Supernova said species. Meaning not human. Your fingertips glide over the name Supernova. A shiver runs down your spine. Could it be aliens? You giggle nervously at how your imagination has run away with you. Alien? That's just silly, isn't it? What alien goes to college?

College. Inspiration strikes. You look at the coded bit again. You're immediately reminded of the class seminar you took on Beowulf. That's it! It looks like Old English! Excitement course through your veins like an electric charge. There has to be a book to decipher it somewhere in this library.

You put the note back in the book and carry it with you as you begin a search for books on Old English. Your frustrations mount as you hit dead end after dead end. Although there are a few books on the subject none of them seem capable of telling you what you wish to know.

You open the book that contains the note and you see something you haven't seen before the book contains an inscription.

Dear SN,

I'm hoping this will help you with your thought processes for school.

Be sure to give it back to me when you understand it. Ha! Ha!

Professor Aelfdene

Being an aficionado when it comes to interesting names you know this name stems from English roots and your eyes widen with wonder as you translate it (Ay–a–lef-den) meaning "from the Elfin Valley."

Aelfdene... You're struck further still when you remember the name of the library was Halfdan Library. Halfdan is Old Norse. Again, Beowolf springs to your mind; Halfdan is Healfdene in Old English the name of the legendary Danish king, but what if they got it wrong? What if the spelling had gotten changed through the centuries?

What if it was Aelfdene? Could this library be the house in which the item spoken of could is hidden?