Medallion of the Undead by Anthony Rudzki

Author:Anthony Rudzki [Rudzki, Anthony]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Solstice Shadows
Published: 2015-01-31T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

The door closed slowly behind Delas and Adam. She led him to the wooden countertop separating the elder men and women doing administrative tasks from the visitors to the libraries. With a heavy sigh, a thin elven woman closed the book she was writing in with a dull thump, and slid her chair from the table. The squeak of the legs on the wooden floor caused several of the other readers to stop and look up at the room’s newest visitors.

“Can I help you?” The woman asked, annoyance evident in her voice.

Delas looked over the woman’s shoulder at the room and was happy to see that their interruption was short lived and all of the readers went back to their studies. She put her clenched fist to her mouth and cleared her throat.

“Hello, I am Delas Endine, and this is Grenon Briseal. We’re students with the Guild of the Rose, and we’ve come to do research.” Delas turned to acknowledge Adam, and turned back to the woman who had pulled a worn book from a hidden shelf and hefted the tome onto the counter.

The woman opened the book and flipped through several sections, stopping and running her finger down the pages, before turning to another and continuing with her search. With another deep sigh, she closed the book, slid it to one side and pulled another from under the counter.

“Guild of the Rose, huh?” She asked. She opened the book and flipped through several tabbed sections. She ran her finger down the page.

“Yes, ma’am.”

“Here, we go. Delas Endine. Briseal, I don’t think…wait. Yes, here you are. Grenon Briseal.”

Lifting her head up from the list of names, she asked, “What were you researching when you were here earlier?”

“The history of Gnorepenne,” Delas said quietly.

“Gnorepenne? That’s in the Northern Region isn’t it?”

“Yes, yes it is,” Adam said in a low voice.

Delas smiled and folded her hands on the counter. This is going easier than I thought it would.

“That information would be located in the lower level of Tangles Hall.” Her finger slid across the map and settled on a small building nestled between two large patches of trees. “Now, let’s get you signed…Oh dear.”

“Is there a problem?” Adam asked.

The older woman behind the counter closed the book and placed it and its companion under the counter. “I’m sorry, but your permits have expired. You need current permits to enter the library proper and examine the stacks. If you and your companion would like to do some research, you will have to have the elder of your Guild send us a request to renew or extend your expired permits.”

“But, they’re…” Delas blurted out and then caught herself. She looked up and saw an older man in flowing blue robes, threadbare at the elbows, look up and examine her and Adam. She swallowed, took a breath and continued, “I’m sure that the requests were sent weeks ago. Perhaps they were misplaced.”

“Misplaced? My dear young lady. Let me assure you that we take our jobs quite seriously here.

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