They had to deal with seven separate groups of assassins throughout the night. With some reluctance on part of Elizabeth they held back from actually killing any of them, merely relying on Desir to physically force them into prolonged slumber. Just to err on the side of caution, he, Irwyn, and Elizabeth had stayed awake.Not all the way until dawn, though. Waylan and Alice slept for a good chunk of the night, but when it seemed like they had seen the last group of assailants, they woke the two to move on with their plans. Elizabeth set up some magical traps for any latecomers, then they were off underneath a veil of Void magic.They had put together that the documents they were after would most likely be in a private section of the palace’s library. As chance would have it, Waylan had actually stumbled upon it earlier in the day and thus knew the way. For the most part, anyway - they had to do some guessing as to not take the same detour as the sneak had when moving around the whole perimeter.When they made it to the front door of the palace’s archives, they were actually locked. After some debating, they determined that there were no real wards inside the unrestricted section. Alice performed her three-step test of teleportation safety, then brought the entire group inside. From there it took them just a few minutes to stumble upon the heavily enchanted chamber hidden behind one of the bookshelves. All the magic ironically made it easier to find.Not that breaking in would be easy. Alice quickly determined that breaking in through Time magic would trigger some spells that were likely alarms - and possibly other countermeasures. Elizabeth proposed that with Concepts they could force their way in, but that would also likely alert the whole palace of what was happening. Which would not be untenable, but would bruise their Pride, besides the other possible complications. Which lead to Waylan groaning in the corner as the (...)