burn between us
Dante said.
Elian looked at him. "Both," he said. "Yes."
The library was on Whitchurch Road, as she'd said, and had been there since 1906, as she'd said, and did not go anywhere. It was a Victorian building with the specific confidence of something built during a period that believed in permanence, solid and red-bricked and entirely sure of itself, and it smelled, inside, the way libraries that have been libraries for a very long time smell — the accumulated breath of a hundred years of reading, paper and wood and something that was neither but was both.
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