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== Plot == | == Plot == | ||
With the largest private [[library]] of [[human]] publications outside of [[Earth]] due to be | With the largest private [[library]] of [[human]] publications outside of [[Earth]] due to be closed by its new owners, [[Bernice Summerfield|Benny]] is sent there by [[Bev Tarrant|Bev]] to purchase as many items as possible for the [[Braxiatel Collection]]. She meets [[Samuel Wolfe|Sam Wolfe]], a [[lawyer]] for [[Omnispatial Mercantile Dynamics|OMD]], the company which now owns [[planet (Timeless Passages)|the planet]], as well as his infant daughter, [[Jean Wolfe|Jean]]. They are welcomed to the [[Labyrinth of Kerykeion]] by the [[chief librarian]], [[Archibald Spool|Archie Spool]], who claims that Bev contacted the library despite Benny having been told that it was the other way round. | ||
Spool shows the building to Benny and explains that its structure keeps decay at bay, ensuring that the books are not damages by the passage of [[time]], and that this is why OMD have purchased the planet. She meets the [[librarian]] Hermione whilst looking through the rarest and most valuable books and asks Spool why he did not accept the [[Technocult]]'s offer of copying the contents of the library, deducing that he wants Bev to purchase the entire planet and promising to ask her in the morning. Later, Benny is awoken from her [[sleep]] by a knock at her door and finds Jean crying in the corridor. She takes him to Sam's room and finds him cut into pieces. | Spool shows the building to Benny and explains that its structure keeps decay at bay, ensuring that the books are not damages by the passage of [[time]], and that this is why OMD have purchased the planet. She meets the [[librarian]] Hermione whilst looking through the rarest and most valuable books and asks Spool why he did not accept the [[Technocult]]'s offer of copying the contents of the library, deducing that he wants Bev to purchase the entire planet and promising to ask her in the morning. Later, Benny is awoken from her [[sleep]] by a knock at her door and finds Jean crying in the corridor. She takes him to Sam's room and finds him cut into pieces. |