brand new colony

They haven't actually seen much of each other since Peredwr and Danbrann stumbled on the archives, that first time; in the intervening fortnight there's been too much else to demand their attention. But now there's a calm space, a sudden quiet, and Peredwr finds it even more unsettling -- unsettling because the city itself is still so overwhelming, so busy, so full of other people doing things, half of which he can't figure out.

So one warm evening, while Danbrann is absorbed in mending their winter clothes -- she's always done what sewing there was to be done, as neither Peredwr nor their mother was any good at it -- he finds his way back to the library building, and in among the ramshackle stacks like a bird returning to the forest.