It was the same in mine. It didn't help that people didn't want to learn, and the church discouraged it.

[Others from his time might be more charitable about the cause of that, but Hector has no love for the church.]

You had to be very powerful, as an organization or as an individual, to have a library like this.

[Hector can't say he would've killed for this, but he certainly would have made some questionable alliances to gain access.

He looks up from the text he's been scanning to look at Iskandar.]

What? I have a feeling you're not going to say blisters.