The interior is large and clean. The air carefully conditioned. Plenty of space to move about. Plenty of quiet and open sky visible through the tall arched windows of the Sacramento Room. It's vintage was comforting.
Wide and sturdy tables had supported the scholarly efforts of several generations of students.
Martha felt she was dressed appropriately in her school uniform. Her boater hat perched on her head, satchel at her side. Her bicycle locked securely outside. She sat at one of the tables, working and reading hard. A stack of journals - the Journal of Military History, Defence Studies and the Diplomatic History: the journal of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations and several similar books on the table next to her.
Smiling cheerfully to herself as she enjoys reading in the silence of the Room. Her fresh notebooks already busy with careful manuscript notes, diagrams and annotations. Photocopies of important pages and bibliographies all organised near her too.
She has brief taken time away from the hurly-burly and business of Court to study something of potential value to herself and the Ordo at large.
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