"Sh-she is actually from earth?" I gasped, my lips parting in shock. "No, there must be something more to it."
I shook my head, deciding not to jump to immediate conclusions.
Now in her undergarments, Ezekiel moved towards the wooden desk placed before the window. She opened the drawer and drew out the books, pen, hairpin box and ink placed neatly inside it, completely emptying it.
From the pocket of her loose tunic, she took a metallic key and inserted it into a hole at the far corner of the drawer's surface, hidden beneath the books.
After a few rotations, the wooden slab at the surface shifted slightly. She took out a hairpin from the box and inserted it into the risen part of the wooden slab to lift it completely.
Beneath it, a diary of thick cover was revealed.
She took out the diary and began scrolling through its pages. After moving past hundreds of pale yellow pages written in the English language, she stopped at the first unwritten page.
