"Sounds quite exciting!"

"That's why we're doing it."

"Yeah. It's cool and no one else is and we're gonna explore everything."

"'Everything' is quite a tall order."

"Not much point to small dreams."

"No, not at all. I got where I did by dreaming as large as I could." She takes a sip of tea. "You two are going to go quite far, I believe."

"Thanks for the vote of confidence."

"I'm sure you don't need it at all."

"Probably not."

"I suppose you'd like to see the library now?" she asks after another sip, finishing her cup.

"That would be nice." She puts her cup down.

And onward to the alchemy wing of the library - entirely composed of discussions of alchemy, and of sciences as relevant to alchemy. Books not directly related to alchemy are housed in another room.

Dante points out where the old and fragile books are kept, and advises the children that those should not be handled without supervision.

"It's no Central Library," Dante says with a wistful look, "But I daresay I'm likely to have things they don't."

"Central Library must be really big."

"It's quite enormous. Unfortunately, most of it's restricted to State Alchemists."

"Are you a State Alchemist?"

"No. I have a disagreement with the military."

"Just the one?"

"Quite a few all hiding behind one very large one."

"What's the big one?"

"They have different ideas of what I should do with my time than I do."

"Isn't that like any job at all?"

"I've always had quite a bit of trouble with those."

"I don't think I'd like having a job either."

"They're rather troublesome things."

"Have you ever had one?"