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The library

The stacks were a legend. Aaliyah had grown up reading about them. She was fascinated by how her ancestors once used to learn from houses that had a large collection of things called 'books', made of an interesting material called 'paper'. She learned some even had leather or hide on the outside. As an archaeologist, her love of life was to find rare things considered extinct. She had already discovered the lost city of New York, considered one of her greatest finds. She had stumbled upon it, quite literally, while she was searching for something else in the woods. In the same dig, she had discovered 'steel', the material of legend that was said to have once dominated human constructions. The only sample ever found belonged to her, and she had donated it to the museum of antiques. It now adorned the central square of the massive museum as one of its most prized displays.  And now she just needed to find the library. The glacier had worked its way through