[...If she were a little less polite, that'd get a bit of an eyeroll. God, the cliches...]

Well, if one of the books turns out to be a lever of some sort, we'll know we've struck gold. Honestly, I'm not even sure how they could get much worse...

[Well, they should be there by now...she's gonna peer around the room a bit before looking back up to him.]

Wanna split the room in half and meet at the end? It'd give us even ground to go off of, and worst come to worst, it'll have been thoroughly checked.