Cleaning up the Guildhall after LongNight was much easier this year, thanks to the planks they had put over the window wells outside and the snowmoss that had been stuffed into the cracks to keep out wind and wet. Last year it had been a small disaster. This year? A little sweeping, a little muscling of the inner boards off the windows, and the place was already ready to open again for business.
The events of the Spire and at Safrin's shrine had caused Jigano to become far more subdued than he had been in the past, putting his plans to recruit more members to the guild on hold for a while, but questions still needed answers, and people still sought their door, so his steps were slow as he returned from outside, and picking up the well covers to let the light back in again. Hopefully they would still be needed next year, and against that hope he was carrying them back inside, to be stored in one of the little side rooms dotted about the edges of the building.
It was luck alone that he spotted an unfamiliar blond head wandering aimlessly between the stacks, only a row away from the path that lead to the great metal door of the Guild. Jigano shifted his burden of large boards and cleared his throat quietly so as not to disturb the handful of other patrons in the library at that hour.
"Hello?" he said softly. "Can I help you find something?"
He might look more like a workman than a scholar at the moment, but his tired blue eyes were kind and sharp as they studied the newcomer.
The events of the Spire and at Safrin's shrine had caused Jigano to become far more subdued than he had been in the past, putting his plans to recruit more members to the guild on hold for a while, but questions still needed answers, and people still sought their door, so his steps were slow as he returned from outside, and picking up the well covers to let the light back in again. Hopefully they would still be needed next year, and against that hope he was carrying them back inside, to be stored in one of the little side rooms dotted about the edges of the building.
It was luck alone that he spotted an unfamiliar blond head wandering aimlessly between the stacks, only a row away from the path that lead to the great metal door of the Guild. Jigano shifted his burden of large boards and cleared his throat quietly so as not to disturb the handful of other patrons in the library at that hour.
"Hello?" he said softly. "Can I help you find something?"
He might look more like a workman than a scholar at the moment, but his tired blue eyes were kind and sharp as they studied the newcomer.
