[ Given her lack of weapons, Hughes might well win were a fight to break out: Vex has muscles thanks to being an archer but she isn't the strongest member of her usual party by any stretch of the imagination.

As it is, she appreciates the distance, straightening herself up and offering him a smile in return. ]

Maybe if you wish to farm book worms. Or wyrms. I wouldn't put it past a strange library such as this. [the smile does fade a bit at his question, however] If I had, I'd be long gone. Best as I can tell, I started at a T-junction of shelves.. This place is a maze.