Editing Libraries of Faerie (section)

===The Palace of Glass and Knowledge Unbound===

If someone wanders within the deserts for nine days and nine nights, and one day beyond that, with only what food and water they can carry with them, they might find the Palace of Glass and Knowledge Unbound.

But, probably, instead, they will die.

If they live to see the sun rise on that tenth day, the Palace of Glass and Knowledge Unbound will appear. A great sandstorm suddenly erupts, so bad that it scours the skin, and blinds the eyes. When it fades, there is a great palace of glass, with large spires and elegant domes. It catches the light of the sun, and it holds it, so that it does not blind those you look upon it during the day, and stays bright enough to see by during the night.

Inside the Palace of Glass and Knowledge Unbound, it is a paradise. There are bookshelves made of glass, with thousands and thousands of panes of glass. Amid these beautiful bookshelves are flowing rivers of cold, clear water, and waterfalls of the same, and in the upper levels, pools of water, that during the day, are heated enough to bath in.

Those there is no food within the palace, and no where to sleep, or even sit and rest, there is no need. As long as someone drinks with sweet, cold water of the Palace of Glass and Knowledge Unbound, they need no food, nor sleep, nor rest, but their desire for this water is a near desperate thing. 

The time of those within the palace can be spent much better, by listening to the panes of glass, by dipping their fingers into the clear waters, and rubbing it upon a pane of glass, the words it contains a read aloud, in a voice like the hum of crystal.

One can stay within the Palace of Glass and Knowledge Unbound for as long as one wishes, but they will never see another living soul.

Once needs only walk out of the front gates of the palace to leave, but once they leave, they can never return.

While difficult, the walk out of the desert is much less dangerous for someone who has been within the palace, for, as long as some has tasted one drop of the palace's water, they will never be thirsty again.