"Did you really come to do research on embroidery? Don't you have needlemasters in your clanhold?" "Oh, um. Well. Not for this no." "What do you mean?" She looks away from him, and smiles. "I want to learn from other traditions. Find ways we don't know in Kasith-Varouin. Looking things up in the Great Library made sense." "Oh," Anvar says, suddenly deflated. It did make sense. "But you did guess right," she says quietly, hands smoothing the pages of the book in front of her. "I did? Uh, what?" "I do have an ulterior motive. I want time to think for myself. Time away from home. And I remembered what Inien said about the scholars at the Great Library. I am glad he wasn't wrong."