The hours bled into one another, the soft gray of early evening deepening into the heavy, suffocating darkness of night.
Aira had been in the library for almost two hours now. It was a massive room with floor-to-ceiling shelves made of dark mahogany, filled with the comforting scent of old paper and leather. It was the only place where the silence felt peaceful rather than oppressive.

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