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.