Garahel whines; fetch is good exercise for everyone, isn't it? But Inessa motions for him to go lay down, so he does. She, on the other hand, stands to take as large a stack of books as she can manage to her spot and begin sorting them out then and there.

"It will last a month before needing to be renewed, and that will give us plenty of time. I can teach it to others as well; it's a useful skill, outside the library as well as within."