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An actual thrill flowed up er reinia Woolf and Karl Marx had sat, but those walls had still housed the finest reat works

The respectful hush in the Reading Room told me I wasn’t the only one left a bit verkle about was probably a ridiculously reverent one That said, the room deserved so lorded over a roolass cases While I was a bit disappointed that it was eous

And for a second, I tried to iineblack sweater The fantasy ended, however, when I was unable to get rid of ination

Virginia Woolf would totally have rocked Converse, I toldwhether the others would let me nose around just a little

Unfortunately, Blondie was all business as she strode purposefully towards the back of the roo his teeth with a long fingernail, his expression bored Anyan followed sharpish, but I trailed behind, peering greedily into cases Eventually, Blondie sent the barghest to fetchmy hand with a caress of his thumb on my palm that made me want to follow hiet a chance to see any real sites before I had to leave Britain

Blondie paused at a back wall of the Reading Roo, which was dotted around its edges with plasterin the center of the do the whole ti only she could see Anyan ended up crowding right behindbetween our legs, an uncoinal looked around surreptitiously, and I felt the faintest of glaainst the hairs on ed all four of us

Only then did Blondie lean forward and breathe on the wall A glyph appeared, si the creature, except this one was smaller and looked more modern It also wasn’t touch activated, as Blondie used only a soft puff of breath and a fehispered words before it started glowing

I’d been expecting the wall to open, revealing a secret corridor Instead, I nearly screeched when I felt the floor move Belatedly, I realized why Blondie had bunched us up the way she had

Instead of there being a secret door, ere standing on a secret platforht still filtered in from the hole in the floor above us, but soon that was blotted out as either another floor or a glamour covered up the entrance I felt aif I was allowed to create a ht or not But Blondie did it for us a second later, and we descended in silence, Hiral’smy bare forear?"

Anyan opened his mouth, about to answer er on his lips

"Let her see it for herself," she said "It’s more ioing to protest, and I definitely wanted to protest But then he s to love it," he toldwhat the hell aiting me as we crawled doard at a ridiculously slow pace Any irritation at hoere going ended however, as the platfored frohtening sense of vertigo hit s I realized only then that we ic, for there was no apparatus under or above us that I could see Despite the slightly braver part of me that wanted to look around, the scared-shitless part ofic wrap around htly to him in a security blanket of ratefully, only then daring to indulgearound, albeit carefully

If I’d been a bit disappointed at the onlyRoom-turned-exhibit, this roon seenore the laws of physics, we descended past stories of books There were sowith the roof into entire arches of shelves,shelved nore ladders on complicated tracks crisscrossed not only the walls but the ceiling, as well, and I shuddered at the thought of cli

When ere finally at ground level, the undy carpet More low carrels of books dotted the vast space before us, creating natural little divisions between clusters of seating options The tied from modern, if very chic, sofas to the little leather and wood chair-has There were also low tables, desks, and conference tables, offering different options for working or reading Sconces holdingin their warht, and at the very center of the room there was a fire pit, around which were low couches lined with pillows