III The Library
The susunod room Ember visited was to her a Heaven on Earth. An enormous room just for holding books! The ceiling was so high it would have taken ten of her standing on tuktok of one another the reach it. The shelves and shelves of books were piled right up to the tuktok and there were several ladders placed conveniently so that she could reach the topmost books.
Ember walked round the room as though she were in a dream. She loved pagbaba and devoured every book she found but she had never had a whole aklatan full of them to herself. She barely knew where to start. Every square inch of...