[oh books! that's a much nicer thing to talk about! Al nods enthusiastically and brings a couple up from the pile he'd been sitting amongst, showing them off]

There's a bunch of books about things I've never even heard of! Like how physics and chemistry changes in space, where and how a lot of elements are made, and different histories and cultures for the places everyone came from [does the bookshop have those kind of books? well it does now I decided]

Studying is something I'm good at, so I thought that maybe if there was anything in here that could help...