CHAPTER 43 Zandaril had excused himself from dinner early and vanished, as some of the others did, but Penrys lingered over the meal in a desultory discussion of possible plans before breaking away eventually. She scanned briefly for Zandaril and found him out of the building but not far away and clearly in no distress, so she dismissed the puzzle of what he was doing and paid a visit to the library, something she’d been longing to do since they’d arrived. As she walked in she inhaled the familiar scents, and smiled. I would know a library blindfolded. An older wizard occupying a table in the front area with a stack of books looked up nervously at her entrance. His face was known to her from the classes, but there were too many names to remember. She nodded at him and picked up one of