The creature is a Scrivener's Bone using blood-forged Lenses. Just then the creature shows up again and attacks, and they have no choice but to enter the Library. Alcatraz finds a note from his grandpa, and they debate whether to go in. Kaz uses his Talent for getting lost to lead the group to the Library. Alcatraz breaks the F-16 and the Dragonaut but they manage to crash land. They are suddenly attacked by an F-16 piloted by the same creature at the airport. Alcatraz learns via a set of Courier's Lenses that his Grandpa is at the Library of Alexandria looking for his father. Her mother is the new knight sent to protect them. Bastille has been demoted to squire because of her failure in protecting Alcatraz. On the vessel are Bastille, her mother Draulin, another cousin, Australia, and his uncle Kaz. Librarian agents, including a strange half-man, half-machine Librarian, catch up to him and he narrowly escapes on a glass flying machine shaped like a dragon.

which is true.For a chapter by chapter summary, see /Summary.Ī few months after the library infiltration, Alcatraz waits in an airport for Grandpa to finally take him to Nalhalla. Smedries are special, but not unique, in Oculator-y.Ĭultural reasons? Plus, how many people really want Smedry talents? alot of people see those as synonymous with insane, luny, reckless people. Being an oculator is random thorughout the population, including non-Smedries.

But if Alcatraz is from the main bloodline, so should Kaz, right?Īlso, if you can get Smedry Talent by marriage, why aren't Smedrys polygamous? I'd expect them to enter into purely formal marriages with the Crystin that are assigned to protect them, especially those with useful Talents (totally not thinking of it because of the Ship Tease indicated when Alcatraz got distracted by Bastille while trying to fly out of the pit trap.

Why isn't Kaz an oculator? I got the impression that while every Smedry has a Talent, only those of the main bloodline can be oculators. But Bastille has used them in the first book just fine, why isn't she doing it now? Why Bastille and Draulin don't wear Warrior's Lenses? IIRC they were used only once when Kaz needed to run faster. If the answers are in the next books, please say so and don't give the answer itself. So I just finished reading it and I have a couple of questions.

Alcatraz versus the scrivener's bones