He glances at the book again, then hands it back to Verity finally. "I'm not sure if the answers would be in this, but if it's your best hope, you'd do well to stick with it. An entire dwelling vanishing, however, speaks of temporal matters. Do you know if the godchild was tinkering with things of that nature? The make of reality's fabric, meddling with portals? One who is not trained or prepared may find themselves, well...not."