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Although the boy's wheelbarrow had plenty of books in it, most of them were copies of the same things. There were three books by an author named Ra'ari "Roy" Aarcha: Kannonball Kira, the Krazy Katta, Kannonball Kira and the Kalamatous Kiss, and Kannonball Kira Komes Klean. The covers showed a lithe, sinuous katta female wearing almost nothing except a few carefully paced shreds of ripped clothing, and the interior of the books seemed to be precisely what one might expect, a mixture of rollicking action and rather explicit love scenes.
The other book that the boy had mentioned, The Book of Coins, looked to be a good deal more substantial. It was bound in leather, and appeared to be an academic text on alchemy. It might be more suited to Henry's intellectual bent, if the topic was something that interested him.
Most of the wheelbarrow was simply more of the same. At the bottom, there were a couple copies of the second edition of A Primer to Arcana, both of which appeared to have been obtained used, as they weren't in the kind of fresh-from-the-bindery shape as the rest of the books. Nonetheless, they were still perfectly serviceable, with all the pages present and accounted for.
The boy looked over at Henry. "Anything catch your fancy, sir?" he asked in a practiced salesman's voice that belied his young age. "The finest works from the presses of Jagarts publishing, most respected and profitable publisher in Medonia and Jaedaxia. I'm sure there's something here for you, sir." One of the adults held out a copy of one of the Kira books, and the boy accepted payment for it smoothly, without taking his eye off of Henry.
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