Chapter 55

Summary

• The chapter involves a group of survivors, including a character named Livira, escaping danger and seeking refuge in an intricate library labyrinth.
• The characters are escaping a force referred to as the 'sabber', and encounter a dangerous assistant creature that kills one of their group.
• They watch two autonomous agents (referred to as assistants), one dark and one light, battle and destroy each other. This leads to the group recognizing that the black 'assistant' was a controlling force trapping them in the chamber.
• Yute and Yamala, two prominent figures in the group, decide to seek refuge in the labyrinth of the library while they figure out their next move. They aim to find a safe place within the labyrinth to hide from the sabbers.
• Livira uses her extensive knowledge of the labyrinth to lead the group and then uses the momentary respite to collect her own writings, hidden throughout the labyrinth, into an assembled book.
• The group hears distant sounds of fighting; thinking it may be the sabbers or perhaps the army, they become alarmed when they see a distant, ominous coil of smoke rising above the library shelves.