`` ... at every bookseller 's shop-and we went to every one in amdarh-the waif would ask for books about tigrelan or sceval or pandar or centauran , and when the booksellers showed her legends and myths about those places that were written by dhemlan authors , she would politely-she was always polite , by the way-tell them she was n't interested in books of legends unless they came directly from those people .