Book Eight: Chapter 38

“So this is the Restricted Section.”

“The first part of it, yes.” Sofia stood and grabbed her staff. “You should know that most of these doors don’t actually go anywhere. When you step inside, they lock you in a cell until the Head Librarian comes to find you. Or doesn’t, as the case may be.”

“Are there corpses in these rooms?”

She nodded. “Some of them. It’s the Head Librarian’s prerogative whether they let someone out. Once inside, the intruder is scanned and their intentions and how they got there becomes known. There are some very powerful individuals who vanished from history because they tried to sneak in here to steal secrets and ended up starving in those rooms instead. The walls are enchanted to weaken the body and prevent any kind of spellcasting.”

“So you essentially have a prison.”

“Not a prison. There is no assumption here of care. We either let them out, or let them die. There is no in-between.”

“I see.” Mike noticed they were drifti