186 Shiny

The silent market encompassed the entire castle. Every room in the castle, including the dungeons, became a shop. There were no decorations inside the stony chambers of the castle but each room held a plaque that identified itself in the common language. Beneath its bold font, several smaller writings in other scripts presumably said the same thing.

Rowan first led Syryn to a store that sold books. Every available inch of the walls was covered by floor to ceiling bookshelves stocked with tomes of all thicknesses and colours. More books were stacked on the floor and then even more overflowing across the tables. An old woman sat on a comfortable chair near the door. Open at her table was a book that Syryn was familiar with.