Are you alright? I do apologise, ma'am. [He tries to unload the books held against his chest back onto the shelf so he can free up his hands and also take the fallen books back from her.]

I'm afraid your guess is as good as mine. I am newly arrived to town. [The fire is fairly self-evident but little else about it is. Books with pages melted together don't really help much either, and he doubts anyone would have documented any details about the fire and gotten it published. If they were lucky there might have been a plaque or some photos hanging on the wall or something, but. They must not have been very lucky, to be pulled here.]

This library is as peculiar as everything else about this place. [He doesn't know quite what to make of it just yet.]