Palamedes grins. The specific reference to Dante and Virgil mean nothing to him, but he can hear the gravity in such words. Code names doesn't seem too far off the mark. "Well, it wouldn't be a good title if it weren't just a little bit ridiculous," he muses. "Mine's Master Warden. I've never quite figured out if it's meant to make me feel like a prison guard, or if that's just a coincidence."

Darlington's description of the retrieval process makes him lift his brows, particularly at the bit about when the bookcase stops shaking. "Remarkable. I do feel professionally obligated to ask: the collections aren't harmed by the process?"