Lack of Ingredients

Alex entered the book store that glowed with warm orange light and looked around. 

While they called it a bookstore, it seemed the people here sold information on talismans more than anything. Nearly 70% of everything they sold here was on talismans.

Whisker turned around and helped him locate a staff member who was free. Alex approached the young woman.

"Hello, may I trouble you in helping me find some books of a few information I want?" he asked.

"Ah, yes. What are you looking for?" she asked respectfully, but her eyes moved rapidly trying to understand how he was possibly looking at her.

"Well, I'm just trying to learn about the continent. Do you have anything for that?" Alex asked.

"Hmm, let me see," the woman turned around and looked for a few things. She picked up a book or two and a few talismans. She looked around for a bit and returned when she didn't find anything else.