On top of the city with my Loises all around me, I felt a tremor of something. Was it possible? I had become interesting. - Robin Sloan

Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines — it's hard not to feel the presence of sleeping spirits.

Corvina’s got it wrong. Penumbra’s schemes didn’t fail because he’s a hopeless crackpot. If Corvina’s right, it means nobody should ever try anything new and risky. Maybe Penumbra’s schemes failed because he didn’t have enough help. Maybe he didn’t have a Mat or a Neel, an Ashley or a Kat — until now.

Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines — it’s hard not to feel the presence of sleeping spirits.