She blinks. Wow, that's a genuinely impressive collection. It would be even for someone back home, with all the books there. Not in quantity but in exactly what's present.

Crin has good taste.

Also, the romance novels are cute.

"I thoroughly approve of your library, even if you say it isn't much. And especially as a thing built from scratch."

"It's taken quite a bit of effort over the years to put together. Ishaza helped quite a bit with acquiring the Draenei volumes and the religious texts. The texts on Warpstone's properties are my best reconstructions from the heavily-censored originals, and the monographs on the Winds I was able to source are mostly quite out of date from the state of the art."

Ah, and the Crin conspicuously leaves out the adorable romance paperbacks. Valid of her. She will not attack this possible weak point, even if it would maybe result in adorably blushy Crin.

"Oh, wow, so- in point of fact, you'd be properly accredited a coauthor on all of those books you reconstructed. Albeit one of an odd sort. Hmm. Does the state of the art advance that rapidly?"

"Imperial wizards are required to submit a monograph on a novel application of their Wind in order to complete their apprenticeship, and there are enough apprentice wizards across the whole Empire that there are often multiple monographs in a year, especially when you consider the active journeymen. My most recent one is from five years ago."

"That's quite a bit faster than I would have guessed, honestly."

Hmm. What should she read?

She glances over Crin's books, looking for anything that jumps out at her.

Hmm. Seeing Far looks interesting. She steps forward and pulls it out, quite careful with it.

"Ah, yes, that one." Crin shakes her head. "I'd thought it was a Draenei text on epistemics, but it turned out to be a text on shamanism. Still useful, not what I wanted."

The first page is kind of hard to puzzle through, being of Draenei script, but it seems to be about something like the harmony of the elements...?

She.

She should have realized she wouldn't be able to read this immediately.

Why is she like this.

It is, in fact, completely okay. She can slowly learn the Draenei language through her new abilities.

That said, it's probably more than a little revealing to Crin, if she does that. Does she care? No, it's worth being revealing, here, to read these books.

But plausibly not this book.

"Ah, useful enough you recommend I still read through it at some point regardless of, well, also making that exact misapprehension?"

"Depends on whether you want to help Ishaza restore fields. Some of the information is useful to that end - the chapter on earth spirits is the most important one."

Well, she'll probably be helping Ishaza restore fields through the medium of also channelling Hysh. If their plans aren't all massively upended by her being able to copy the powers of the gods. Which they probably will be.

"Something I should read, then, but not something I should necessarily read now."

"Indeed. I'd recommend the Shyish monographs; you'll probably get more out of them than me, given that you have Windsight."

Magicmagicmagic.

"I will definitely read those, then. Do you have one you'd recommend I start with?"

"Hmmmmm. I want to recommend something in particular, but it's up in my office for a reason... From these, I'd say try the paper on contacting spirits of the recently dead, third from the left, it comes up more often than you'd think."

Alethia will pull that one out after taking slightly longer to puzzle through the meanings of the titles than someone who was completely fluent in the language would take and then- um, is it immediately clear where she should be sitting down to read?

There are three gorgeous leather chairs in the small room, arranged around an octagonal table.

To the chairs she goes! She will pick one out and random and sit.

And then, she shall begin to read the magic book!

Wait, no-

"Do you mind if I just hop straight into reading this?"

"Not at all, but if you read for more than fifteen minutes or so I'll probably go back to fief work."

"Entirely reasonable."

And into the book she'll go!

Magicmagicmagic.

Crin takes out one of the survey books and starts going through it and recording a new set of annotations.

Ishaza takes down a romance novel, plops onto the third chair, and reads.