Chapter 19 - The Lines of Growth
Angor looked through the window, puzzled. It was the first time that he heard such a loud horn ever since he came to Moonwater City. Emergency maybe?
The shopkeeper went to the window as well. He stroked his tidy, handlebar mustache, and looked towards the Vichy Harbor with squinted eyes, “Ah, the merchant ship from the foreign continent has arrived. Ha, so the route on the Whalebone Sea finally unfroze. It’ll become busy once they unloaded all the stuff from that ship.”
He immediately asked his assistants to go to the harbor. This was not the only bookstore in the city, so they got to try hard if they wanted to get better merchandise.
“The Whalebone Sea is open? So… the ship from Fey Continent will come soon? Or did it already come?” Angor looked towards the distance in silence. He felt expectation, as well as some sadness.
He took a moment to regain his smile, collect his thoughts, and check the collections in the boxes.
Angor raised an eyebrow when he saw that most books there were leather books. The papers were obviously of bad quality, but since most leather books were collected in noble families, it was natural for common folks to make poor ones.
The shopkeeper had wrapped up every book tightly. As he said, the mold and wetness never got inside. Since the evening was still far, Angor simply sat down and began reading the book one by one.
He scratched his back unconsciously. Everything was fine.
Just an illusion in the dream?
Angor did not get an answer even after joining Mara and everyone else, so he simply gave up. Maybe he was just mentally tired.