Editing City Series:Volume6e Chapter3 (section)

===Part 7===

Hazel sensed her vision was back and opened her eyes to find herself outside.

She gasped and looked up in the sky to find it was blue. The ground below her was a green field.

She felt a light breeze on her skin and the green grass tickling her ankles.

She could not see the end of the earth. The blue sky and green field continued as far as the eye could see.

“I thought I was outside Berlin’s central library.”

She looked behind her, but the library was gone.

“Eh?”

But something else was there: a small door. A door in a small wooden frame stood in the middle of the field. It sat open and she could see the library from before through it.

When she peered through the wooden doorframe standing in the field, she saw Eryngium standing alone at the counter. The busy readers were still at the bookcases too.

Hazel breathed a sigh of relief at finding the library was still there.

She realized something else as well.

…''I’ve seen this door before.

She saw it when she entered Germania a month before.

…''This was the door in the library’s underground room where I met up with Berger.

The door had been deep below the ground, but now it was below the open sky.

She viewed the door and looked up to the sky. Then she looked down to the green ground.

She looked all around, spotting a few tall apple trees growing around the door.

“Oh?”

One patch of the field wasn’t colored the green of grass.

It was the white of paper.

She walked over to the paper and smiled at how the soft grass tickled her bare feet.

She stopped and looked down to see the paper was blank. She hesitantly picked it up.

“Eh?”

Now there was a large desk in front of her.

A man in a black coat sat with his back to her in the desk chair.

He was using a pen to write something on the many papers on the desk. He would occasionally pause to check a dictionary before continuing.

His hair, shirt, and pants were all black. She only knew one person who looked like that.

“Berger?”

He did not respond. He kept his back to her and continued working.

He showed no sign of turning around.

She sighed and waited, keeping her eyes on his back.

The wind blew through, rustling the leaves of the apple trees.

The whisper of the leaves was louder than the wind itself and it made the wind sound more like a crashing wave.

She looked to the sky to see thin strands of cloud stretching out further and further.

''The wind must be strong,'' she realized before noticing movement out of the corner of her eye.

The man seated in front of her held his metal left arm toward her over his other shoulder.

The hand was spread wide and it wasn’t moving.

“Do you want this paper?”

He didn’t answer her.

But she handed him the paper she had picked up.

He didn’t thank her before pulling his hand back, laying the paper on the desk, and writing on it with the pen in his right hand.

After a few seconds, the work was complete.

The moment after that, he held the paper out with his left hand.

She took it with her right hand.

He immediately pulled his hand back and got back to work.

He opened up the dictionary on the desk, pulled out another sheet of paper, and began writing.

Hazel looked at him, not the paper he had given her.

“Why?”

She glanced behind her in the wind.

She could see the library through the small door. Eryngium and so many other people were in there.

“Why are you out here, away from the others?”

She looked back to him.

He continued his work. But she noticed something on the desk.

A letter opener with its grip modeled after hair sat in the pen holder with its bottom end pointed up. A new color had been added to its gold grip.

A black ribbon-like string was tied around it near the end.

“Oh,” she gasped and reflexively reached for her throat.

But her fingers found nothing there.

This was his place, so she gave one deep nod and unfolded the paper in her hand.

Only a few words were written there.

They were the Text that Berger used for his Ober Beweisen.