>"I'll be in the library, then."
>Go be at the library, then, unless Mokou cuts in with another idea.
>Once there, peruse around for something interesting to read.
>"Very well," Sakuya says, turning back to her task.
>You leave Sakuya and head back towards the library. Mokou follows without complaint. Or, at least, without any verbal ones.
>Once you arrive, you set to browsing the shelves for some interesting to read. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the vast majority of books here deal with magic or similar esoteric subjects. Not only are these outside your field of interest, many of them are beyond your ability to comprehend. You do eventually find sections containing books on other subjects; there are several shelves on philosophy, as well as some books on architecture and medieval politics. There is also a fairly extensive collection of the classics of western literature, perhaps gathered from the time that the mansion stood in the outside world. Comparable works of Japanese origin are virtually absent here.
>Mokou takes a brief glance at the shelves while you examine them, then finds a table in the back corner of the room, leans her chair back against the wall and kicks up her feet upon it. You decide it is probably fortunate that Patchouli can't see this part of the library from where she's sitting.
>Eventually you settle on a copy of Herodotus's Histories, classic of western writing on the subject that it is, and sit down next to Mokou. It proves a fairly easy read, as books on the subject go, which seems fortunate at the moment; your mind is still distracted from the events of the day, and you're not sure it would be in any shape to tackle more weighty prose or philosophical thought right now.
