Past Due (Part 2)

Hey, that rhymed!

Surely its absence would have evaded her notice entirely, were it not for the makeshift lean-to, the telltale black triangle, created by one book reclining unfairly onto another, when they all should stand erect in solidarity. A thickish volume, to judge by the shadowed lacuna left in its place, neighbored by Items 839-S (My Husband, The Saftplau by Jaydmasha Rajus) and 839-U (Mycomancy: A Study of Saftplau Fungiculture Methodology by Nikdor Hadikinn), the book had vanished so perfectly that Iconine Iconine actually glanced about her for where it might have flown to, only to chasten herself inwardly for an idiot.

Come back tomorrow for the next installment!