[a picture of Hood]

[a double page spread of Hood and the breakdown of how to draw him using geometric figures, along with emotional mood swings utilising eye changes - some notes detailing bits and pieces such as the contents of his back pack etc]

Graduation day at the Wizarding Towers of Arkanthor, but shunning all forms of celebration and merriment, the diminutive hero and protagonist of our story: Hood, is nowhere to be seen. Instead seven levels below,

[a sketch & schematic of the main tower detailing the levels with some indication of a party occurring on level 5]

deep beneath the great hall, ensconced within the bowels of the main tower, Hood is in serious study mode. But then Hood is always in serious study mode. He has dedicated himself to the pursuit of magic. Breathes the mystical life day in and day out. Believes his peers to be idiots and his teachers also...except for one or two whom he respects deeply, and hangs on every word that they say in his pursuit of knowledge. Talking about his pursuit of knowledge he is currently pursuing it as we ramble on. Down in the depths, Hood is rummaging through the archives

[a picture of Hood on a ladder, trying to reach a particular scroll - one from thousands of others racked up on shelves]

- thousands upon thousands of mouldy scrolls and manuscripts, writings and musings that have not seen the light of days for hundreds of years. With tremendous tenacity, Hood has managed to find a paper trail and has diligently laboured for over a year, having got wind of a magical tome - the Book of Portals: a book written by the great wizard Albo Pomegranite. A book supposedly lost to antiquity, buried in the mists of time...or simply not returned and currently rocking a major fine at the library it wasn’t returned to...and with a shiver of excitement,

[a picture of Hood sitting at a candle lit desk studying a parchment]

Hood now believes that he has located the precise library in which it is rumoured to have been housed: the library of Aspartamane, the deer headed goddess, in the eastern city of Kera’bur.