After Shadow Milk had been severely injured, and Pure Vanilla had helped him, Pure Vanilla insisted that if Shadow Milk went back to the spire, back to candy apple and black sapphire, to fully heal, he should come along. As to which Shadow Milk had hesitantly agreed.

a few hours in, Shadow Milk was looking for reasonable, educational books, with Pure Vanilla helping at a separate bookcase nearby. Shadow Milk, getting increasingly frustrated, suddenly found something he made before his corruption.

The Cookie who cried wolf.

he looked through the pages. The pictures…him of the past. The beasts of the other paths. Abandoning him, all for lying to get them closer..

he looked at one of the pages. The soul jam… that bright blue. He shook out of it, putting the book back on the shelf and looking at pure vanilla, before asking if he found anything. Pure Vanilla shook his head. after a few minutes, shadow milk heard pure vanilla talking to himself. about how there were “many books by the Fount of Knowledge” and how they “must have been busy”. he scoffed, rolling his eyes and muttering

uh.. yeah, busy.. or endlessly bored.

He scowled, rolling his eyes.

He quickly cut off pure vanilla's response, plucking the magic book out of the other's hands.

Regardless, the book's topic isn't the answer! I uh.. found something. I don't know why my soul jam keeps.. changing colour. Like you mentioned a bit ago. But I do know.. something about it.