"It also only needs one fire or flood to lose it all," she says. "It's amazing that we could save almost all of our own books, even with our spells to protect them. Information is fragile. And why would your moon need to be terraformed after we all came back?"
But she does blush with pride at the comment about the library.
"It's the second largest and the only public library in the world. In recent years we've added a courier service so that people both far and near Vane can take advantage of its knowledge. As one would guess, we keep a lot of books on magic, but the library has many subjects besides."
Mia smiles softly in fond memory, one of her hands idly rubbing her belly.
"Back when Mama was a teacher, she would take those new to Vane and had never been to school before here and teach them how to read and write. She still comes here now and then, even though she's retired, and helps whoever asks her."
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But she does blush with pride at the comment about the library.
"It's the second largest and the only public library in the world. In recent years we've added a courier service so that people both far and near Vane can take advantage of its knowledge. As one would guess, we keep a lot of books on magic, but the library has many subjects besides."
Mia smiles softly in fond memory, one of her hands idly rubbing her belly.
"Back when Mama was a teacher, she would take those new to Vane and had never been to school before here and teach them how to read and write. She still comes here now and then, even though she's retired, and helps whoever asks her."