[ Ebalon's warning does little to deter Tabia, nor does his uncanny prescience - he looks to be an avid reader, after all, and people like that often have their ways of knowing things they shouldn't.

But no, a book for older children would be fine. More than their contents, what drew Tabia here was the way the writing is bound, and the sheer scale of it. Was there any place in Egypt with this much writing compiled? Probably in Thebes. But why build such a grand library on a boat? ]

I've never seen any library like this before. The creators of this ship must be from a kingdom of great scribes and scholars...