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They got thrown in a dungeon, and Alcatraz came to realizations about himself personally, about how he destroyed stuff on purpose so that his foster parents would get rid of him quickly, allowing him to move on before he felt any affection for them.{{book ref|a1|11}} Grandpa Smedry arrived, and was captured and subsequently put under Blackburn’s torture.{{book ref|a1|12}} Alcatraz made his prison guard angry, and Bastille grabbed him from inside the bars and knocked him out, then freed them.{{book ref|a1|13}} They followed Grandpa Smedry’s footprints, having to face an [[Alivened]] on the way.{{book ref|a1|15}} They found both Grandpa Smedry and [[Quentin Smedry]] evading torture using their talents, and freed them.{{book ref|a1|17}} They fled to a room holding Blackburn’s lense collection, and Blackburn arrived. Blackburn and Grandpa Smedry dueled, but Blackburn won. Alcatraz tricked Blackburn by using his talent to break his Firebringer’s Lens. When Blackburn tried to use it, it fired backward into his single eye and blinded him.{{book ref|a1|18}} After recovering the newly-forged Lenses of Rashid, Alcatraz discovered that they were Translators Lenses, capable of translating any text or dialogue. After causing more chaos and escaping the library{{book ref|a1|19}}, Alcatraz got a note from his father, saying that he has another set of Translator’s Lenses.{{book ref|a1|20}}
=== Escaping the Hushlands ===
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|Are you going to climb up here, or do you intend to hang there looking stupid for the entire trip?
|Bastille after rescuing Alcatraz{{book ref|a2|2}}
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After eluding Librarians for a few months, Alcatraz went to an airport to meet up with some other members of the Smedry family, and was discovered by a group of Librarians, including [[Kilimanjaro|a strange man]] with one arm much longer than the other. Alcatraz contacted [[Australia Smedry]] with his Courier’s Lenses, who told him to get outside. Alcatraz briefly engaged the enemy Librarian, who was an Oculator, and escaped when Bastille lowered a rope latter from a flying glass dragon.{{book ref|a2|1}} ABoard the [[Dragonaut]], Alcatraz met [[Draulin|Bastille’s mother]], and Australia. Alcatraz discovered that the others had been sent by Grandpa Smedry, who is at the [[Library of Alexandria]], searching for [[Attica Smedry]], Alcatraz’s dad.{{book ref|a2|2}}
Though the Dragonaut had been initially heading to the [[Free Kingdoms]], Alcatraz ordered the others to change their course for the Library of Alexandria. He met his uncle, [[Kazan Smedry]], and made a bad first impression by insulting his uncle’s height.{{book ref|a2|3}} Later in the day, a Librarian fighter jet attacks them, and Draulin and Alcatraz attempted to fight it off from outside the Dragonaut, using special Silimatic boots. Alcatraz used his talent to break the jet, but in the process broke the Dragonaut as well. They managed to crash into a beach, and Kaz uses his talent to lose them in the jungle.{{book ref|a2|5}} They eventually ended up at the Library of Alexandria, whose exterior is just a one-room hut.{{book ref|a2|6}} Alcatraz learned more about the Library from the others, and learned that the creature chasing them is from the [[Scrivener's Bones]] sect of Librarians.{{book ref|a2|7}} Using a pair of Tracker’s Lenses, they saw that Grandpa Smedry already entered the Library before the others arrived there. Alcatraz found a note near the entrance. The note said that Attica had entered the library. Attached was a pair of Discerner’s Lenses that allow the wearer to tell how old something is. Alcatraz debated entering the Library, but when the Scrivener’s Bone showed up, the whole group ran into the Library.{{book ref|a2|8}}
=== In the Library of Alexandria ===
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|Try not to break anything too valuyable if you come down here. The Curators can be a rather unpleasant bunch. Comes from being dead, I suppose. Don’t let them trick you into taking one of their books.
|Grandpa Smedry in his note to Alcatraz{{book ref|a2|8}}
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After being separated from the others, Alcatraz met the Curators of Alexandria, undead ghosts who took all his possessions that contain writing on them. They said they could tell him how to find his father, but he would have to give up his soul and join them as a Curator. Such is the price of taking any book from the Library.{{book ref|a2|9}} Alcatraz found Bastille and Kaz, and learned more from Kaz about the nature of Smedry Talents.{{book ref|a2|10}} They got caught in a booby trap, which released quick-hardening black goo and completely trapped them. The Curators offered them books on how to get out, but Alcatraz figures out how to release the trap on his own. He asked for his confiscated items back, and the Curators reluctantly return copies. Alcatraz realized that the Curators were bound by rules, and gained information about their rules. He discovered that his father gave up his soul to read a book, and that his possessions have already been picked up by Shasta.{{book ref|a2|11}}
Alcatraz learned more about Shasta from Kaz, and he uses his Discerner’s Lenses to find booby traps before they trigger them.{{book ref|a2|12}} They discover an ancient tomb, and Alcatraz used his Translator’s Lenses to read the inscriptions on the walls.{{book ref|a2|13}} It warned about the dangerous Dark Talent, the Talent of Breaking. He found that there’s a bubble around the tomb’s coffin, and inside time has been broken to preserve the coffin and body perfectly. He finds the body of [[Allekatrase|Alcatraz Smedry the First]], who had the same talent. Alcatraz found a perfectly clear lens, and another warning about the dangerous power of the Breaking Talent. Outside, they found the Scrivener’s Bone equipped with Draulin’s Crystin sword.{{book ref|a2|14}}
The creature, Kilimanjaro, offered to spare the captive Draulin’s life in exchange for the Lenses of Rashid. Kiliman tripped a wire, sending Alcatraz and Bastille into a pit, and Alcatraz gave Kaz the Lens to make the trade with Kiliman.{{book ref|a2|15}} While in the pit, Bastille told Alcatraz more about herslef and the Crystin. Australia found them, and went to go find rope at Alcatraz’s request. Alcatraz use a pair of Windstormer’s Lenses to blow them out of the pit. They headed for the center of the library, which is the oldest.{{book ref|a2|17}}
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|You could say that watching over these books is his soul responsibility now. He’ll probably enjoy the soul-itary lifestyle.
|Alcatraz joking about Kiliman’s transformation into a Curator{{book ref|a2|19}}
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After making a plan with the others, Alcatraz and Bastille charge Kiliman in the center room. They use the Grappler’s Glass boots to distract Kiliman, who has a glass eye, and Australia used her talent to make herself look like a Curator. She freed Kaz and Draulin. Alcatraz and Bastille stayed to fight Kiliman.{{book ref|a2|18}} Alcatraz managed to steal his Translator’s Lenses back, and attached them to a tripwire trap, tying them to a scroll. When Kiliman took the lenses back, he inadvertently took a scroll off the shelf. The Curator’s took his soul, and Kiliman joined their ranks.Afterward, Draulin begged Alcatraz’s forgiveness for failing to protect him.{{book ref|a2|19}} Alcatraz found Grandpa Smedry in a side room, and saw a note from his father saying “I am not an idiot.” Alcatraz asked the Curators for anything written left behind by his father before joining the Curators, and found a note leaving his soul to Alcatraz in his will. Alcatraz demanded the return of one of his possessions, and one of the Curators comes back into life, Alcatraz’s father. Attica congratulated Alcatraz, but otherwise practically ignored him. They left the library victorious, and with the goal of heading to the Free Kingdoms.{{book ref|a2|20}}
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