Friends From Sybarsis

Alexander's next few weeks were jam-packed.

First of all, the goods and men Pasha Farzah had promised finally arrived.

And these needed Alexander's personal attention. 

Particularly all the precious books that the ships contained were transferred to his house for now, to be stored in his study until the new public library could be finished.

These books, many being their original copies, were almost worth their weight in gold and Alexander was there to personally oversee their handling, to make sure the workers were very careful.

And though Alexander knew the value of books before, but actually seeing it for himself was a very different feeling altogether.

Each time he saw the workers move these stacks of tomes onto a cart for transportation, he felt like he was looking at his children, becuase only now was he really coming to terms that he had paid around half a million ropals each for only a few pages of simple parchment with ink on it.