380 The Devil

First, she met the queen as a courtesy call, and afterwards, she went to the library where Chancellor Flynn introduced her to the head custodian of the royal library. The head custodian, who was an old scholarly man with a timid personality, then started introducing her work to her, and offered to show her the section of historical books in the library that she was assigned to handle. 

The royal library was large, a building of its own that was almost as large as an entire side palace, and there were several floors inside, with multiple shelves encompassing several sections of books, from local folktales to special books on governance to books talking about commerce and economy. There were other custodians present as well, but they too seemed to be quiet people like the head custodian and merely offered nods of acknowledgement when Esther passed by them.