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With each step the reality of the uts Beware Alberich Beware Alberich Beware Alberich
She didn’t need this She really didn’t need this She was already in the middle of a complicated iven Kai an optimistic summary to keep his spirits up, but that didn’tto be easy
And now this
Alberich was a figure out of nightot aith it and was still so since lost, and only his chosen name as a Librarian was remembered He’d sold out to chaos He’d betrayed the other Librarians who’d been working with hie and time and the course of years that would afflict any Librarian who lived outside the Library, he was still alive
Irene found herself shivering She pulled her shawl hts back frohts After all, it wasn’t as if Alberich was on her trail at this very e from the Library couldn’t have been faked It must have been sent by one of the senior Librarians, probably Coppelia It wouldn’t have been sent unless things were urgent, which meant that she had to assulanced back into a shopNobody seeently, but the British Library would be shut at this ti so would be easier For the o undercover
Irene wanted to go very deeply undercover She wanted to go so deeply undercover that it’d take an automated steam-shovel to excavate her out of it She also had to decide how erous to leave him in the dark, not to mention simply unfair, but at the same time she didn’t want to panic him After all, look how panicked she was herself One panicked person was quite enough Tould be overkill
Possibly he’d be ignorant enough not to realize just how bad the situation ht be Possibly he wouldn’t have heard the horror stories that had been traded round in quiet alcoves about sos that Alberich had done
And possibly, Irene decided, as she ca under a streetlas would fly – which would at least mean bacon for breakfast Oh well Hotel first Dramatic explanations later
CHAPTER SEVEN
‘I don’t want to co,’ Kai said, ‘but we’re currently holed up in a cheap hotel’
‘We are,’ Irene agreed She sat down and began to work her buttoned boots off, with a sigh of relief