Empire: book 2, the Chronicles of the Invaders (The Chronicles of the Invaders Trilogy)
“Syl smiled to herself as she watched her friend frowning over a dense tome entitled The Science of the Mind, Volume 1. The other five in the series were piled next to the sofa, gathering dust mockingly. Ani had never been particularly interested in reading until they’d come to this knowledge-infused place, but her lack of fingertip facts in their first classes had shamed her, particularly as the Gifted were watching—they were always watching—so she’d set herself the task of remedying the gaps i...n her education, plugging them with as many details as she could.
Syl herself was reading a dated but oddly alluring memoir she’d found forgotten in the largest library in the Twelfth Realm a few days before. It was called The Interplanetary Pioneers. The fat little volume had been crammed behind a pile of hand-tooled, leather-bound books she’d been instructed to alphabetize during her work duties. As with any library, even a repository as rarefied as the Marque suffered from the carelessness of its users, who would yank out volumes in haste and then haphazardly shove them back onto the shelves with scant regard for their order.MoreLess
Syl herself was reading a dated but oddly alluring memoir she’d found forgotten in the largest library in the Twelfth Realm a few days before. It was called The Interplanetary Pioneers. The fat little volume had been crammed behind a pile of hand-tooled, leather-bound books she’d been instructed to alphabetize during her work duties. As with any library, even a repository as rarefied as the Marque suffered from the carelessness of its users, who would yank out volumes in haste and then haphazardly shove them back onto the shelves with scant regard for their order.MoreLess
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