Yes, Quite the task we have. If you could show us these books you arent supposed to touch, I will craft you a fine spatula! Or a knife if you'd prefer. Im very skilled at the forge, as i can tell you are quite skilled here with the delicious scents of food you've created. Which, by the way, who are you cooking for? Seems to be quite a meal.

"We feed the cats and the faerie dragons! But, we don't know where the books are, only that they are around and we don't touch em!"

Ah! So the cats, we have met one already. I love cats and it was quite nice to see one here. We found it as we entered this place. And in that room, someone we had met was killed. There was a puncture wound that seems to have been his end. We haven't met, i believe, the Faerie Dragons? What are those? Are they dangerous, or could you by chance deter them from us if they are?

"Dangerous? Not at all! Tricky! Playful! Invisible, usually. Many cats here, have lost some, too. Don't know how. Hungry? We make food! Eat!"

"What have you lost cats to??  Is something eating them?"

Oh, that does smell delicious, what are you making?

While everyone interrogates Cumin and Coriander, Emporious sticks his head into M7. 

Not needing to eat to survive, Hino is not impressed by the food. And not seeing any books in the kitchen, she too grows bored rather quickly and follows Emporious to check out room M7.

M7 - PANTRY

This is a pantry. The shelves are stocked with sacks of flour, vegetables, preserved meats, and other staples—all the dry goods needed to sustain a household.

"I don't know that these two have much more information, and seeing that there is no 'lettered book' in this area, I think it might be best if we move one."  Isa proceeds to grab a piece of bread off the table "Thank you for your hospitality but we need to keep going."  With that, she starts moving towards the door and into the hallway.  'Oh, but that did smell delicious' she thinks to herself.

“No more books for you bookworms to worm through in here...let’s move on.” Hino says, visibly grumpy and on-edge (knowing there is still an invisible enemy in here somewhere, ready to attack).

She’ll lead the group down the hall to room M4, and burst right in through the door, hopefully surprising anyone or anything that is currently hiding in there. 

Isa will follow close behind, staff in hand and ready to cast 'green flame blade'.

M4 - EXERCISE ROOM

This room contains a battered wooden mannequin and a weapon rack holding staffs and daggers, all lit by indigo-tinted light streaming through a window. The floor is stained and scorched. At the far end of the room, a broom hovers in the air, sweeping the floor by itself!

Actually, Cumin, Coriander, is there any chance you would be able to come with us? Barbär questions as he sees most of the party taking off or eating before they do so as well. We could really use a guide around here. And we can help you find the cats or their fate. Im sure your master would want to know where the cats went. he says with the slightest hint that suggests the return of their Master may be soon.

Isa follows Hino as she burst into the room, she starts by making a quick check for one of the 'Alphabet books'.

Investigation: 4

Emporious waits for Barbär in the hall way while watching Hino and Isa go into the room down the hall. As soon as Barbär starts for the door Emporious will head down the hall after the ladies. 

"Bidding, Binding, Bathing, tribute." Emporious pauses and speaks some random command words as he passes the place they arrived at.

Nope. No book here.

“Just the cleaning staff in here. Once again.....booooriiing.”  Hino will turn tail and skip out of the room, go down the hall, and pop open the door to room M3.

M3 - THE LIBRARY

Tall shelves filled with books line the walls of this room. Two more shelves run through the middle of the room with a ten-foot-wide aisle between them. Several stacks of books are piled high throughout the room. There are small reading desks with cozy scarlet chairs in the corners.

Emporious follows Hino as she leaves the practice room and moves down the hall to the library. After poking his head in and seeing all the books he leans back into the hall and calls out, "Hey everybody! We've located the library! Lots of books!"

He heads back inside and picks the northern wall to start his search.

Perception: 11

The shelves contain books on the subjects of: arcana, natural science, religion, astrology, and planar travel, as well as volumes of poetry, mythology, and folk tales. The puzzle book with the letter R on its spine is on one of the shelf. You can hear a noise behind you, like books falling or coming together as you find it.

Roll for initiative.