where: library archives
when: shortly after gamma's death
[She'll never understand what the littlest magister sees in books. It's not that she can't see the value in them, having read more than her fair share, but they really were a poor substitute for company.
Too bad, she thinks, as she glances from manila pages over to the closed book lying next to her on the window sill. Too bad that while not much company they certainly carry a high risk factor in possessing them (and they all break so easily, even the ones that aren't made of glass).
The one she has open in her hands now, however? Completely harmless. And just as useless; but it's something to pass the time while she waits for the foreigner she agreed to meet. He's different from the few others she's paid attention to so far, and certainly the first she's actually taken the time to meet with.
Well, accommodations could always be made for the potentially special.]