[Accepting his hand she pulls herself up off the floor, brushing out the dust from her trousers before stooping to pick up the pile of books...and after a moment, sets half of them on the shelf to leave behind. She'll have plenty of time to read them so long as she's here, right?]

I'm rather curious about that as well, there are so many worlds represented by the people here and almost all of them seem futuristic compared to my home.