Ero Skill Tree

Chapter Eighty: Lunch at Serin's

Once back to the house, Serin took me to see her personal library. It was on the first floor of this place. We headed up the grand staircase and along the corridor that led off from the landing. We passed several doorways before we stopped in front of a set of double doors.

"In here." Serin said pushing the doors wide open.

I was surprised yet again. This really was a library. Every wall of the place was lined with bookshelves all filled to the brim with books. There were even several free standing shelves in the middle of the room. Seriously, she had more books than the small local library where I came from. I wondered once again, just how wealthy she was.

"Please feel free to look around as you see fit. I'll be back shortly once I've checked how things are going."

"Right, okay. I'll see you in a bit."

Serin left me there alone. I was a little unsure where to begin, when faced with this many books and no idea of what I was supposed to be looking for. In the end I decided to just dive in and start browsing the books.

There were titles of every description fictional works of literature, philosophy, magic and finally I came to something that looked like it could be of some use. A history of the line of human kings in the age of light. It seemed like a good place to start. It turned out not be the kind of history that I was expecting.

Instead of explaining the kinds of things that each king did or what happened in their reign, the book focused more on their blood lines. It went into meticulous details about who their ancestors were and who they were related to. None of this seemed particularly related to what I was looking into in anyway and it was also incredibly tiresome to read. By the time that Serin came back to see how I was doing, I was glad of the interruption.

"How are you getting on? Have you found anything of interest?" She asked.

"No, nothing yet. I don't think going through the bloodlines of the kings of men is going to help us much. I should probably look through other books."

"I wouldn't blame you." She giggled. "That book, is incredibly boring!"

"It really is!"

"Well after dinner I can try and help you search. I'm not sure how much help I'll be, but I can at least steer you away from volumes like that."

"That would be a great help."

"Great, then we'll come back to this later. I came to get you because the food was almost ready, so should we head back downstairs?"

"Yeah sure, I'm ready to eat."

"Follow me."

We left the library and went back to the ground floor of the building. Serin then showed me to her dining room. It was another large room. The table only took up half of the room and it was probably big enough to seat a dozen people. I was looking at the massive thing, thinking how it might feel a little odd, for just the two of us to sit and eat there. It was definitely overkill.

I followed her around top the end of the table where two places were already laid out for us. Serin sat down at the head of the table and gestured for me to take the seat next to her.

"I would have preferred if we could have sat opposite each other. The staff find things like that a little awkward. So, I'll have to sit at the head... I hope you don't mind."

"Not at all." I answered, remembering what John had said about calling me sir in front of Serin.

I guess that the class system was quite inground here. I could imagine Serin trying to treat her servants as equals and them finding it off putting.