Adrien let the trapeze swing to a halt - somehow the two glowing ropes that supported it seemed to keep moving along the roof of the dungeon whenever no-one was looking, so the journey had been rather like one extremely extended arc - roughly in the middle of the library, close enough that anyone who wanted to hop off could do so as easily as stepping off a bus. "Hope no-one ever needs to read these books," he remarked, an amused grin on his face. "It must be a real pain getting down here. So I guess we can carry on, but...all the best libraries have secret passages. Anyone else feeling like a magic fantasy dungeon underneath a school for heroes is going to have a lot of those?"

And, unless one of the others stopped him, he closed his eyes for a moment in concentration. From underneath the chair, a large, pink snake wearing a top hat and a bow tie (how was it staying on? Who knows) slithered up to the four teenagers, doffed its hat to them, and then slithered over to the nearest bookcase and pulled a random book off the shelf with its tail. You never know.