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uninhabitable because of tectonic and meteorologic
forces. The Aerie is not just the Great One’s home, it is also the
repository of knowledge that the ancients left us.” He walked down
the hallway to a door that had a small carving of a book and a
pattern in a circle half way down the right side. He paused and
looked at the carving and the door opened.
    The room was quite large. You could probably
fit six caravan wagons in it length and width wise, and was at
least twenty feet tall. It had a balcony entirely around all four
walls that was one wagon length wide. The room was filled with
loaded bookshelves. There were some tables in the center of the
room. Standing aside so all could see, he gestured to the room.
“Somewhere on these shelves are clues on how we can pull back from
the precipice that we find ourselves. I ask that each of you,
before entering, step before the carving and look into the book as
if you were reading it. It is ancient technology and will know if
you are permitted into the library. Otherwise an alarm will bring
security. The information is not available to all. I have placed a
chair and a stool beside the carving. To anyone uninformed it will
look like just a place to pause and sit. But it is there for Tempo,
Keir and Nuit to get to the right level to be scanned. I respect
their input which has proven useful on your journey. Since you are
all with me now I can let the guardian system learn of each of you.
I will clear Nuit later.”
    Drune walked to the carving and looked at it
for a moment then moved away. Erin moved to the carving next. As
she studied at it there seemed to be an almost imperceptible
flicker of light and she instinctively knew she could then step
back. Tempo scampered up to the footstool, onto the chair and
climbed upon the top of the back. He peered at the book for several
seconds then turned to Erin and nodded. As he jumped down Keir flew
to the chair back and repeated the movements that everyone else had
done. Then turned and looked at Gyan. “We can now all go inside.
This will be our task. It is too big for just me and we will see
what headway the three of us can make. I might need to add another
sage but that will not be right away. Your companions are free to
come and go. When they are here they can discuss with you
information as you turn it over in your mind, Erin. This problem
has never come up since the planet was stabilized. The knowledge
has been lost from the general knowledge the Great One passes down
to his successor. The ancients will have had a contingency plan and
it will be here.”

Chapter 4
A Needle in a Haystack

    They spent the rest of the day familiarizing
themselves with the library. Erin was awed that the books were in
such good condition for being incredibly old. She credited it to a
lost technique or paper treatment that the ancients had. After
randomly going through the shelves, she started looking for a
pattern of why books of certain topics were where they were. She
had asked Gyan about the order and he had shrugged. “As far as I
know no one has reorganized the library. We have lived here about
two thousand years. I am the fifth Great One. It is possible that
the system of order has changed in the library since it was first
set up. Unfortunately, I don’t believe that the ancients have a
book on ‘realm troubleshooting’. I have been going through the
books for at least two months. I have concluded that they were
protecting us from inadvertent misuse of knowledge by hiding
information. It is here but won’t be easy to find.”
    Each of the three took a different part of
the library to start looking. Erin was up on the balcony. Drune was
at the far end on the left side and Gyan started to the right of
the door. Keir had left through the window so he could watch for
Nuit at sunset. Tempo had decided to take a nap. He was going to
leave Aerie at sunset and try to locate some skunks. The companions
had taken Gyan’s word seriously and knew that