‘Onward,’ I instructed Ori, who led the way briskly and with an air of purpose.
Gio’s rooms proved to be situated a few minutes’ solid walking from the library. It is striking how vast those Libraries really are. We wound our way down many corridors, through a few more libraries of varying sizes, and a number of rooms of ambiguous purpose. At last, Ori stopped at the end of a short corridor lined with doors.
‘This one’s Gio’s,’ he said, tapping on the blue door before which he had halted.
I summoned the Map. ‘Are you sure?’
Ori looked sharply at me. ‘Yes. Why?’
‘There is no transloc point around here.’
‘There has to be. There was, before.’
‘Then it has been removed.’
Ori began to look genuinely afraid. ‘I don’t know what to do,’ he admitted. ‘There is no way we can get through that
