484 - In the Lesser Purple Tourmaline Reading Room

Ailadas was sittin' in the Lesser Purple Tourmaline Reading Room and he's reading to Sera Eren.  She'd been coming into the Marble Palace every day after my lessons were done and they'd had kaf in one of the parlors and then he'd offer her his elbow to walk her to one reading room or another.
I was supposed to be doing the work he assigned me, and I kind of did, but only as much as I understood…