Chapter Nineteen
The Rift
“Emotions ran deep in the Librarian, despite his pinched face.”—Aggie
Aggie had already left a template with the Foreigners, and they had no idea what to do.
They were in the hub of the city helping to make decisions. One whiff of “Aggie loyalty” could screw it all up, cheese the Librarian right off.
“What shall we do?” hissed Foreigner One. “Lie? Pretend a four-legged creature has eaten them?”
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The Librarian was in the meeting room listening. He spent hours spying, nearly as many as watching earthlings.
He watched the arresting of Emmeline Pankhurst, gasped at Sweeney Todd, laughed at Harold Lloyd, and shed a tear for Charlie Chaplin’s Tramp.
The earthlings fascinated him. He loved intrigue, spying, and melodrama as much as he loved his library, and if
