Chapter 27

Summary

• In Chapter 27 of Axon Bloom's "Know Your Library", the reader follows the character Livira, a library trainee.
• Livira has spent two years training in a vast labyrinthine library located inside a mountain, packed with centuries of knowledge.
• On her thirteenth birthday, Livira is allowed to return to the outside world briefly. On the way to the city, she reminisces about a lost, mythical place called the Exchange and a friend, Evar, who she met there.
• She also remembers the loneliness and confusion of her early entrance into the library and wonders about her progress.
• She's perplexed about her position in the library as she was initially targeted by a lord who seemed to have lost interest in her, and she feels more at home with fellow trainees: Arpix, Meelan, Jella, Carlotte, whom she regards as her family.
• During her time at the library, Livira has been diligent in her studies and excelled in many subjects, although struggled with others. She's also been exploring the boundaries of the library in search of clues to return to the Exchange.
• Livira has found several books suggesting the mythical origins of the library, one of which introduces the characters of Jaspeth and Irad, two brothers who fought over the first library.
• On her journey to the city, she is made to stop by one of the others who used to work in the library, Salamonda, who forces her to meet Yute, a high-ranking librarian who initially recruited her.
• Yute and Livira have an intense conversation. He reveals that he believes her story of opening a forbidden chamber. He also sets her on a mysterious quest to analyze the nature of the library’s “greatest curse”, prompting her to question the roots of their civilization and its rapid growth.