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"That..." Lore replied, "Is a bit hard to explain, I suppose it's both fast and long time living at the same time," he murmured as he stopped at the door to the second floor, opening it, "After you've lived enough years it seems like time goes by pretty quickly, but when you have more or less forever in front of you, it's a long, long time."

"Sort of," Lore nodded as he looked for the medicial section of the library.

Though he was thinking the opposite in a way, he knew a lot of time had passed, but the days just seemed to be going by quicker.

"Hmm..." Lore could hear the laughter, not that he minded, it was nice and pleasant, but it peaked his curiousity, "Is there something funny?" he inquired softly.

Everyone was doing as he should unless some univserity student decided to make a mess of things (which is sometimes a bit humourous though not for the student).

Lore smiled fondly, as he kind of pieced together a bit, coming from a similar background, "Book... or rather paper resources are vavuable, making books an expensive resource indeed. There are lands that purposely grow trees to make paper, these lands are good and while it does take years, it is what allows books to be massed produced here," he also added as an afterthought, "In addition there are about five major schools of learning for scholars, they find our library convient, so rather than put resources into expanding their own, they put it into this one. Patrons who wish to make a good name for themselves also help the library grow," he explained, "That is the only reasons why this place has become as large as it is now."

"Well, I think one of the reasons is the education system, it's rare in these cities that it is the parent that teaches the child everything. Children," he coughed, "In theory, I say in theory because it is dreadfully difficult to track people down, are required to go to schools until they have fulfilled the education requirements."

He shrugged a bit at that.

"Part of what they do, is that they encourage the children to do research," he points out two young people sitting in one corner, "Those two are doing last minute research on some topic of history their teacher gave them. They are to read, take notes and write an essay on the topic, and provide proper referencing," he laughed, "Everyone who works here keeps telling them not to leave it at the last minute, after all there are only so many books on the a subject and you want to get the best first."

"Yes true, it's fine actually to teach your own child, it doesn't matter," Lore replied finally coming to the medical section, "Many of the clans in Gaia still teach their own children, now which books or what type did you need?"

Lore thought for a minute, "There should be a nice picture and overall altas type book of the basic races," he mused thoughtfully going through the book shelf, "Assuming no one took it out, but mutli race medince is rare."