"Lunch now!" Kori announced. "There's a library with a ridiculous tree growing inside. Apparently someone decided photosynthesis belongs indoors. We'll sit there and I'll tell you everything else you need to know. Someone remind me to tell you about the professor who collects pins. No, that's not a metaphor."
They let themselves be swept in the direction Kori indicated. As they moved, heads turned again. Curiosity that didn't quite trust itself.
The students threw weird looks as if they still didn't know what to think about these Royal Scholars.
After a few corridors and students trying to look like they didn't stare, they crossed through a smaller library - the one with the tree. It rose out of a central planter as if a gardener had convinced a tree to try being a piece of the room. Or a chandelier.
