[Hector's been here for a couple months. He's has more opportunity than the new arrivals have to earn some coin. He'll charitably leave the unguarded wallets of the frozen natives to the less fortunate.]

We've less than an hour before the portal closes. I don't know if you could make it to the library and back in that time.

[If they had texts more aligned with his own studies, Hector might risk it, but he's not going to get trapped in Thorne for the books he's seen in the castle library thus far.]

Best stick with what you can find here, and make sure not to weigh yourself down with more than you can carry.