[color=silver][center][h2][color=#8990c7]ℑ'ℜ𝔞𝔧𝔦𝔱𝔥[/color][/h2]
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Libraries were curious places for Noctem.

While they primarily used them for research as other folk did, their study experience was quite different. They took no notes. They found misinformation and embellishments where others saw fact, having learnt ancient truths since birth. No Noctem ever picked up a book and read it from cover to cover, either; such would have been an awful waste of time - and if there was something a singular Noctem did not have in abundance, it was time. No, books - or rather, individual chapters or passages - were used to give context to facts that existed without from, to tie together the beginning and the end, to reveal questions the Noctem only knew the answers to. 

So as I'Rajith threw another book into a mounting pile of tomes, it wasn't because he'd finished reading it. He'd simply finished needing it. The book had concerned gardening, of all things. Of late, the Conference had talked about the topic often, if always disjointedly. It wasn't a field I'Rajith had much personal interest in, but if there was something more painful than ignorance, it was knowing only half the story. Now he knew all about the ideal environment for growing tomatoes, and could close that chapter in his brain. 

He'd managed to close quite a few of them of late, in fact - all thanks to the Princess who, in her plight, had accepted the Noctem's offer of help in exchange for access to this very place.

Now, the next topic... hm?

I'Rajith wasn't the most perceptive of all Noctem, but the library was quiet, and someone's steps were not. He slid off the table he'd been sitting on and peeked past the mountain of books he'd piled on the floor. There, he spotted a Wooden One wandering amidst the shelves.

[color=#8990c7]"Is it a book you seek?"[/color] came the calm, almost ethereal voice of the Noctem, accompanied by an awful crack as he tilted his head abnormally far to the side. [color=#8990c7]"Ask. I know the books here. The good, the bad, the blatant lies."[/color][/color]