"It is remarkably convenient, even for those of us who take less...deliberate...advantage of it."

She giggles.

"Haven't needed it yet, but you never know."

"I can heal with pain magic. It's useful!"

"Yes, that does seem to follow."

"I'm not that great at the rest but that's what Anlei's for. And our lovely host too, I guess."

"...Wait, the two of you knew pain magic before coming here? Where did you learn it?"

"I used to heal myself the normal way, a little at a time, and that mostly worked, and then one day I picked up the wrong thing and it blew up in my face and that was my introduction to pain magic."

"Huh. Well, congratulations."

"It's a really useful trick but I'm lucky Anlei has a natural talent because I'm terrible at teaching it."

"That is lucky, then."

"Yeah."

"What do you think of the library so far?"

Apparently what she thinks of the library is not expressible in words.

Well, that's fair. He is somewhat reminded of the idiosyncratic labeling system. It's a charming comparison.

"How about you, do you like it?"

"Oh, yes. Irikaino has excellent taste in poetry."

"Ooh. Where's the good stuff?"

"What kind of poetry do you like?"

"The kind with feelings in it? I'm not an art critic, I don't know what the fancy official categories are."

"'The kind with feelings' in it works, there's a section for books with a particular kind of feeling it it, I'm fond of that one."

"I like the sound of that!"

So he leads her to the 'blue' section.

"Huh. I wonder why blue."

"The naming system is pretty idiosyncratic. Irikaino wasn't really expecting new people to want to access the library when she was organizing it."