Strange nods—but then pauses because wait, what? The book was drunk? Obvious question here, how can a book be drunk, but then again, it is the book of the Raven King. Perhaps it was a magic book? After all, the menagerie has all sorts of mystical creatures and faerie itself is weird to begin with. Perhaps the library of John Uskglass played host to an alcoholic book!

If so, good Lord those poor magicians. Having to deal with no more books in England was bad enough, but if the most important book they had on hand was capable of getting drunk...visions of Childermass, Segundus, and Honeyfoot chasing around a book that was somehow scurrying around on the floor in a drunken fashion play in Strange's head. The mental image is friggen hilarious and he can't help but smile.

"Does the book have any particular preference to alcohol? Perhaps if you bribed it, it would be more amenable to translation."