[Robert Asprin? Cloud hadn't seen anything by that author since he was a teenager. Not that he'd been looking. There were more books in the Myth Adventures series? When did they come out? A long time ago, from the looks of it, but Cloud had only read up to book six. It seemed like a whole lot more had been published. Why did Asprin's last name have to begin with the letter "A?" A standalone bookshop like this had to make use of every last bit of space and so the bookshelves went all the way up to the damned ceiling, and not a stepstool in sight. Cloud wasn't short, exactly, but...
A quick furtive glance around, then Cloud began carefully climbing up the sturdy wood shelves.
He was just right about to reach the books on the top shelf when the entire bookcase tipped over, sending Cloud tumbling to the floor and burying him beneath a colossal pile of thousands of old paperbacks. At least the wood shelf was halted in its path when it struck the one on the other side of the small aisle?]
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A quick furtive glance around, then Cloud began carefully climbing up the sturdy wood shelves.
He was just right about to reach the books on the top shelf when the entire bookcase tipped over, sending Cloud tumbling to the floor and burying him beneath a colossal pile of thousands of old paperbacks. At least the wood shelf was halted in its path when it struck the one on the other side of the small aisle?]