Chapter 11

Summary

• Livira and Yute climb to an entrance of the library located in a mountainside, along a path strewn with rubble.
• Yute explains that this entrance is mainly used by library staff and that there are other entrances for the public.
• The entrance is guarded by two men wearing helmets resembling owls’ heads, and both carrying long steel tubes.
• Inside, they walk through a complex maze of passages, encountering many staff members. The staff are dressed in different shades of robes - blue for general staff and trainees, shades from white to black for librarian to head librarian.
• Yute introduces Livira to a grey-robed teacher, Heeth Logaris, and informs Logaris that Livira cannot read or write.
• Logaris leads Livira to the back of a room full of children studying, calling Livira a 'Yuteling,' and then delivers a monologue about the evolution of language.
• He insists that Livira learn to read and write as quickly as possible, threatening considerable displeasure if she doesn’t.