5 Chapter 5: The Library

Since that fateful day in which she had first met Ilara, she's been working for her ever since. Naera was fortunate indeed to have met such a kind woman inside the wall of Garuh.

She went inside the library and was greeted enthusiastically by Ilara.

"Naera! Thank goodness you're finally here! I need your help terribly, darling. I need someone to help me organize these new books that just came in and there are so many of them. I just simply can't do all of this by myself. My hair has even started to go all over the place because of this horrid, stressful mess!" Ilara said as she was up on one of the ladders, holding two books on each hand and looked positively exhausted.

Her hair stuck out in all sorts of ways from her usually neat bun and she had bags under her eyes.

"I'd be more than willing to help, Ilara. You look exhausted."

"Exhausted? I look horrible!" she exclaimed as she started to go down the ladder and dusted herself off of any lingering dust that settled on her dress.

"You? Never." she said with a genuine smile as to which Ilara responded with a chuckle.

"Now don't come to me with your flattery so early in the morning. My deserved flattery time schedule must be precisely at noon, Naera. Or have you forgotten?" she said with a light, joking tone.

"Oh, of course! How could I forget?" she said as she joked back.

Ilara was like an older sister to Naera ever since that day that she found her exhausted from wandering around, trying desperately to find a decent job.

Naera looked up to Ilara and loved her dearly like they shared the same blood.

"Now, why don't you help me organize that pile first?" she as she pointed to a rather large pile of books stacked in a corner. And it was one of many stacks of newly arrived books.

Ilara truly wasn't joking when she said she needed the help.

She started picking up the books and tried to read their titles before organizing them. Naera loved to read, but if it weren't for Ilara, she wouldn't even know how to.

Ilara was the one that sparked her passion for books by teaching her how to read. She already knew some basic reading, but a poor orphan girl like her from the Wall of Omire couldn't truly read as good as people from the Wall of Garuh.

And as she started to get better at reading big words, she started to read more and more books by the day.

"The Adventures of Teolio the Wizard should be at the Non Fiction Section, The Adventures of a Normal Man who lived a normal life should be at the Fiction Section..."she said to herself in a low voice as she started organizing the books by genre.

But a particular book made her stop in her busy tracks.

"The History of Dragons."