Anvar arrives in the Great Library one morning followed closely by someone else. He is halfway through the arch when he realises, and turns - and his breath is taken away by the face of the young woman in the nexus room. Her bright brown hair glows in the pale Library light, and her round freckled face shines with a smile unlike anything he has seen before.
"I - uh!" he manages intelligently.
"Oh!" She sounds surprised, but not dismayed.
Anvar gathers himself. "I am Yllianvarar An-Tahallin of the Seth-Varouin clan," he says, trying to remember what Invar had said before. "Do you, uh, wish assistance with your research? Did you come to do research? I mean -"
"Oh, I am glad it is you!" she says, and the thoughts he had painstakingly gathered scatter once again.