Yeah, that'd be great.

So she does. The book isn't really focused on the magic per se, but in trying to explain what is and isn't possible to enspell on a mature plant vs. a seed or an individual plant vs. a line and why, it does give some useful advice on techniques for isolating and applying traits in general.

Yeah, all of that is going to be pretty useful. Any chance we can get any books to take home?

Books're pretty expensive, but yeah, they should have spares of most of them.

What should we trade?

You still have those coins from when we came in, right?

Some of them; will that be enough?

Probably for a few, I'd have to check. But if someone goes and gets some more jewelry to trade down there, that won't look too strange, just don't go to the same merchant if it's more than we could have had with us from the beginning.

Makes sense. No one'll notice if we vanish from our rooms, right?

Nod. If you're still gone in the morning we'll need something to tell them and I'm not sure you'd be able to leave the area the usual way without someone noticing, but if you're back by dawn it should be fine.

Can't imagine it'd take long. 

And he goes home to get more stuff to trade for books. Everyone is very much in favor of this trade.

And she goes over the procedure for trading things for coins again and gives him an estimate of what he should expect to get for them. You'll have to wait until daytime, though - most elves aren't nocturnal.

Yeah, we noticed. It's fine.

Nod. Are there any other things you want to get while we're here? I was kind of hoping to get a couple more hats, and those seeds...

Works for me.

All right. Put some money aside for that, and you should still be able to get maybe twenty or twenty-five books if you don't care about the scribing quality, which I don't think you're going to if we're going to be translating them anyway.

I'm sure it'll bother us, but we'll live, yeah.

Even the nice ones probably wouldn't be pretty enough for you. And nobody but me needs to look inside them.

Yeah, fair. I'll go get them in the morning.

If you want me to go with you I can probably handle it, if you don't mind waiting until after lunch. She'll have to be careful, and she should come right back afterward, but it should be okay so long as nothing goes catastrophically wrong.

Sounds good, if you'd like to.

Yeah. I'm curious what they have, actually, the village didn't get many books. Kind of the one thing I like about cities.

Sure.

So they go together.

It's the biggest library in the kingdom, with several thousand books. A clear majority are fairly straightforward collections of information on various topics, though adventurers' memoirs are also well represented and there's a selection of short story and poetry collections. Nidela first takes a quick look around to familiarize herself with their organizational system, and then starts looking through the section on magic.

Did you want to focus on anything specific? They've got some good stuff here but I don't know if you're looking for more introductory stuff or advanced stuff or things about other species' magic or what.

Maybe a mix? Some introductory stuff, for sure, unless it's all going to be so simple that if you can safely cast you're past it...