290 The Other Aymora

KALLE

Gahrye stopped after they passed through the double doors and Kalle smiled. He gaped at the old Victorian interior of the building. It had been updated and extended many times. But she loved the library, because the school had maintained the original interior, even having it restored back in the eighties after an earthquake threatened to bring down some of the molding and crack the ceiling.

The library was three levels, but this lower level had a towering, vaulted ceilings, original, solid-wood paneling, and decorative pillars along the walls, and sprinkled throughout the shelves. The original wooden floor had been refinished again a couple years earlier, and some of the back rooms converted into study and research spaces that the students and staff could reserve.