The Astral Library

The Librarian had addressed her in both languages, but was there a translation spell or something going on? A library is the one place a harried mom headed off on a lunch date with the latest guy who isn’t keen on the whole kid thing can park her child for a couple of hours, without needing to make some kind of purchase. In fantasy novels it always seems easy: heroine leaps onto dragon’s back and up up up and away she goes, long locks billowing picturesquely in the wind. Cathedrals used to be sanctuaries, but that was only for people who believed in the same things, the same god—people who weren’t too different.