To me, there has always been something marvellous about libraries & something magical about the books that they contain, preserving the past, presenting the present & forecasting the future within their leafy pages, transporting us back & forth through time in shuttles of text & pictures. However, quite a few of the ones encountered by the NightCafe Bikers during their pan-Bikerverse travels take these concepts to wholly incredible dimensions, in every sense!
So here is a gallery devoted to just a selection of these fantastical examples - everything from libraries harbouring living books, luminous books & even a fluttering or two of flying books to mysterious manuscripts, enchanted encyclopaedias & their regal leonine guardians. There are even a few spectral scholars, a couple of goblin mages, and naturally a plentiful quantity of browsing bikers.
As for the final, whimsical picture of a little boy enraptured by his discovery of a magical library hidden inside the trunk of a fairytale tree, this was inspired by a daydream that I experienced long ago when a small boy myself, spending a golden summer afternoon happily perusing the tree's multitude of multicoloured volumes, bathed in streams of sunlight pouring inside the trunk from the bright sun directly overhead. Good memories!
More of my AI biker images next time!
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