You realize you can just ask, right? the Library spoke in her mind. True, she'd always been able to ask. Even in her foster homes, she'd been able to ask. But that was never something Quinn had been good at.
This is the kind of thing which would have been great at 33% or 50%, but waiting until the book is 88% complete is the exact "stone in the shoe" which made the middle of the book muddy.
