"Is that the place? That's a lot closer than I thought. I thought it would take days from what you said."

"Oh no we weren't that far away from civilisation—I mentioned how large the continent is in general but this city's close."

Well. Not really a city. More like a village that wants to be a town.

"Hm. City, huh? Looks more like a duchy holding to me."

"Mmm, I guess? No dukes here, though."

"Has it got an inn and a market? That'll be good enough for me. And I want to stick close to you - see if you can cover for me if I forget to pretend to be using artifacts for everything magic."

"It does, yeah, and sure. We should land about nowish, though, for that same reason."

"Flying machine is plausible, though, right?"

She angles down to land anyway.

"Not at all."

"What, too expensive?"

"Nonexistent?"

"...Flying artifact."

"Oh. Yeah, plausible, although they'll still think it's somewhat wasteful to show it off."

"I can tolerate that. But I don't want this out of my sight. I'll carry it into town."

"Sure, no one will know what it is anyway."

She's pretty strong for a fourteen-year-old, apparently. The flying thing looks pretty heavy and she's holding it - not like it's nothing, but relatively easily.

"Which building is the library?"

"This way," she says, and they meander through some cobbled streets and alleys until they reach a quaint little two-story building.

Gren follows Kaede's lead.

"Vasil, I bet you'll appreciate the chance to read, eh?"

"This unit will be satisfied to obtain more information."

"Do we need to pay a fee, Kaede? Libraries back home asked that."

"Not in small libraries like this, here everyone knows everyone else."

"Except me, of course. And Vasil."

"And me, and that can only help, because if a book disappears they know who took it."

"Hmm..."

She follows Kaede into the library.

It is not a very large library! But it's quaint and has a nice selection and more than would normally be expected for such a small town.

This world's literary tradition is entirely foreign to her. And she mostly can't read the language.

She picks something on the simpler side at random.