The air conditioned Library held an unnatural cool and the atmosphere here was alive with the gentle tip-tap of keyboards and filled with the heavy glare of overhead fluorescent lamps.
Several bored librarians are quietly chatting near a fire extinguisher and two students are hunched furtively over their tablets and laptops.
Meanwhile, tiny Martha was amusing herself by studying the latest What's On events listings at the Sacramento Public Library.
The small creature leaned on her walking cane and smiled.
-1 Vitae for Blush of Life
Martha is meekly and sweetly attired in an English style school uniform: a neat straw boater, a black blazer...a pair of scholarly...yes, she'd admit it..."Hipster" style...spectacles are perched daintily on the end of her nose, she wears a long gymslip which shows her leg to mid thigh. Her raven black hair is tied into two very long twin tails, each tied with scarlet ribbon bows.
A swift glance would reveal that most of her left leg is obviously a simple metal peg leg.
She wears a white knee sock on her flesh leg and a single carefully polished black Oxford pattern shoe, a crisp white blouse is obvious where the Edwardian style gymslip reveals it, as is her red necktie tucked neatly into her gymslip. Martha wears a useful looking school satchel and carries a simple metal walking cane. Though smelling of minty toothpaste and lemons, she's shunned more obvious cosmetics.
She emits no Beast and has invoked her Blush of Life.
Her petite presence exudes almost tangible sweetness and innocence.
Pausing in her inspection of the local What's On listings, she turns her attention to the rest of the room... afterall, you never knew quite who, or what!, you may see or encounter in such a place so late at night...
...Especially on a foggy evening like this one...