Huang's maintenance buddy Hua Gao has gotten spendier with mana, animating mops and buckets with abandon. She asks if that's wise. He says he's been getting paid in mana for some stuff by Taipei. He says she could probably get in on it too, and tells her where the Taipei reading room is.

Huang doesn't get a ton of library time, but she has a bookshelf to fix soon enough, and swings by the reading room once she's gotten it standing and the books reshelved.