"Hmm. That's too bad." He's not entirely sure if that meant he did indeed instead use his plant-powers to provide for people affected by food scarcity...but it was probably best not to prod at the moment.

"It is. It's incredible." Despite everything that's happened and what he'd had to put up with, his reverence and awe of the Library remains unchanged and evident in his voice. "...that's too bad. I wish there was a way around it for you, I'd miss that like you wouldn't believe." And he genuinely feels sorry for his plight, he can't imagine what it'd be like without easy access to books, even if at one point in his life he had to hide how much he loved them. Metropolis rings enough of a bell, but he's not that into comic books, even if he did read them a lot as a kid.

"We have a pretty decent security system, but I'll keep that in mind." A magical security system, but that's been breached before. Multiple times. He's definitely not going to mention that in public out here.