Librarywards! Along the way they don’t encounter anyone else but can hear someone singing in another room.

The library is notably poorly configured for a child, with most of the lowest books being huge reference books or books on niche topics.

Is there a chair she can stand on?

Yep. Kind of heavy but Chanai can move it for her, or (now that they're not on maximally high alert for a bodysnatcher and everyone has relatedly chilled out a little about touch) pick her up.

"Got any idea what you’d like or do you just want to see what there is?"

"I'm just browsing although if you do happen to have a summary of how everything works for an amnesiac that would be awesome."

"It seems like what you don’t know is either where you come from - and there won’t be any books about that here - or how humans live, and that’s the kind of thing humans treat as too big for one book, but there’s a book about traveling through the islands south of here that might help you think about what the important parts of a human life are. And there's a book about how to use human magic."

"The first one seems more important for the moment since I won't be able to use the book about human magic."

Here it is! In addition to the landscapes (often mountainous) the writer paid a lot of attention to the food (they eat a lot of fish and grape and olive products on the largest and northernmost island) and the architecture (there are illustrations; far enough south the roofs get very steep) and the languages ("Southern Trade" is pretty much what they speak in Zorvey but they have another language in the far south) and the clothing (they can copy Rekki fashions in Miomir, though they often don’t, but any further south than that they do something completely different).

"You guys will just eat a fish?"

"You have to cook it first, it’s no good raw."

"I don't see how that improves matters!"

"It might not for your species! Humans can eat more kinds of things cooked than raw."

"I guess there might be things like that for me but I don't know them off the top of my head."

"That's not surprising."