If something seems too good to be true, it usually isn’t true.
That’s why an experienced trap setter makes everything seem as perfectly normal as possible. Like the deal Shalina had just taken. It was a copy of an Aristotelan essay on logic. Nothing particularly exciting, not even a first hand copy, and translated at least once. It wouldn’t bring in big money but it would put food on the table. And Shalina needed food on the table.
And that’s why she suddenly found herself in a back yard, surrounded by armed guards.