The drow girl murmurs, which might have been a return at the greeting, or might have been a dismissive remark. Either way it didn't seem to involve an effort to form any actual words. She returns to perusing the books.<br/><br/>She finds a few suitable books. A rather hefty and worn one is "Dangerous Beasties of the Dark", written by a dwarven explorer named Boris Rockgut. This drow translation has a foreword commenting on how it is among the more comprehensive works the translator had ever seen.<br/><br/>A little too comprehensive, perhaps, as it is small-printed, and drones on about ecological considerations and theories, though it has quite a few helpful illustrations, and a detailed index that will help her look up any creature she might have an interest in.<br/><br/><br/>The book that catches her eye on sentient races appears to be very new,  "Current Affairs of Subterranean Civilzations". The section on drow details the current decline of their power, and otherwise focuses on the rise of the Kobold Hegemony and the Umber Empire.