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Jinhai moving made the barest scuffs across wood floors as it moved as booted feet seemed to make contact with the ground then stopped entirely as if weightless. Its eyes darted to and fro reading tome names unbound from any sort of biological fixative limiting either depth or structure. The body bent and stretched over the top of the computer until the hood was upside down over top the monitor. It read with its eyes shortly flipped upside down committing the entire screen into the almanac. It didn't bother to bend up first before swirling in place to follow Lolanthe while reconstituting its shape. Its soft arhythmic thumping from long bent knee strides might be disconcerting to many as Jinhai left to catch up with Lolanthe.

Its voice was ever moderated but worn away as if over dunes from the foot of the stairs, "The computer is your node for this place? We are aware of them, now, but we find them inefficient. The lesser of Myrkul's Vein will come soon. They can build one for you, humankind."

It took the book running a glowing finger over a few bits of wear around the edges. Maintenance didn't take much effort or psimass and it kept these source artifacts from deteriorating outside an almanac. The book wasn't put under its cloak so much as pressed to the surface then dropped in with a fluid ripple. The wrapped library cards bobbed in place like flotsam.