Order of Aria

Chapter Five: The Library

    "Medeis, this library is big. How do people even find things in this place?" Ronwynn grumbles to herself as she browses the shelves for anything that might help. She mumbles the titles as she comes across them. "Maybe I'm in the wrong section? But then again I don't even know where the librarian is." She looks for any form of a map or guide, finding only more aisles to sort through. "Maybe Esme was right, I should find my books on my own. I feel kind of bad for making her go through this all the time."

    "Do you need some help?" A small voice calls. Ronwynn looks towards the voice, trying to spot who said something.

    "Hello? Are you the librarian?"

    "No, I just do some work here." The voice calls from the same spot before, but no one is there.

    "Uh, where are you? Apologies but I can't really see you at the moment."

    "Oh, I'm down here. I get that I'm small but I didn't think I was that small." Ronwynn looks down as she sees a small hand waving from below. "Hello! I'm Clover, I help out Miss Violetta a lot." In front of her appears to be a half-foot with disheveled, short, brown hair and hazel eyes. If it weren't for the silver brooch on her breast pocket, Ronwyn would've thought she was a random visitor.

    "Oh uh cool. Do you think I could speak with her? Maybe get a map of this place or something."

    "Oh, she's out for her midday meal. I can help you though! I spend enough time there that she's tried to convince me to work here." The thin, silver glasses she's wearing slip down her nose and she pushes them up to fix them.

    "Could you draw me a map?"

    "I could but it would be impossible to read. Trust me I hear about it all the time. If you could tell me what you need I can get you there or tell you about any books we have in our possession."

    "I don't know if I'm allowed to tell you about it though. You see it's kind of a need-to-know thing, not really an 'everyone can know' thing."

    "I don't need to know why or the details, just what you're looking for." She starts to list out the different categories. "You see we have books on magic, history, important people-"

    "How specific do your books on magic get?"

    "Oh well," she starts to walk off towards a different aisle and Ronwynn rushes to follow, "it depends on how specific you want. We have books on potions and spells. Then, it gets into all the basics of each, the different types, recipes, stances, with or without a wand. You know the works." She pauses and looks down an aisle and mumbles to herself, "No not here. Hm we were at the Important People - Aria's History section. We took a left..." She lifts her hands up to demonstrate the movements they took. Ronwynn is behind her trying to catch her breath.

    "I forget that half-foots move so damn fast." She mumbles to herself. "Are you sure that you know where we are going?"

    "Shh! Of course, I do now be quiet so I can go over the directions." Clover goes back to her mumbling and hand movements. Ronwynn leans against a nearby bookshelf to rest. Clover then turns to her and goes to say something but is interrupted by the sound of footsteps.

    "This is the castle library. Please feel free to use this in your stay here at Vandercrith Castle." Both Clover and Ronwynn head towards the voice. "I can see if Miss Violetta is here and introduce you all. I do have to say, and let's keep this between us, her hearing is not so good. Please be a little loud when speaking with her." The two find themselves standing at the entrance to the library. Clover pushes up her glasses as they stare at the group.