The cowboy stopped again and looked up thoughtfully, eyes narrowing as he thought out loud.

"Knowin' what we do of this new time theory, that some places experience it differently than others, what if the library is indicative of that?" He turned around to face Malcolm. "What if it's a yardstick for this place. What if the early town found something. Built over top of it. Continued on their lives. What if this is part of it?"