Temperance composes a letter to send home explaining the concept of a printing press and then goes to sleep. She wakes up early and starts doing magic research on her own. Comparing what she knows and what the book tells her. She has a late lunch and then remembers to actually send her letter.
That done she sits in the library and proceeds with her research. She ate enough at lunch that she decides to skip dinner and wait for Kaede while reading.
It is: rather tall.
And broken, its top laid horizontally and overgrown with grass.
The thing is: Rather Wide. It has a perhaps hundred-metre radius. The inside is not really visible from the outside, there are no windows and the place that got broken down is too ruined for anything other than "rubble" to be descriptive of it.
Oh there is an obvious entrance point: a rather large door. Closed.
The broken top half is also rubble.
Absolute no entrances? Well, drat.
Is the door likely to react if Felix stands in front of it? Maybe it reacts to the word "friend" in Elvish.
It does not, sadly.
Felix tests a few things. How does it react to a rock being thrown? To a magical flame (his breath power)? To a simple spell-ritual that produces a strong but directed force to open the door?
Impervious to all of these things.
Well, he is very well protected, including Temperance's anti-magic ward. What happens if he just approaches the door and touches it?
It tries to slide open.
There is rubble in the way, however, so only a slit manages it, barely enough for him to squeeze through.
What can he see on the inside? Can Felix slide the rubble out of the way? And put some rubble to prevent the door from sliding closed?
The inside: is pitch black. He can do those things, though.
Then he'll see something that looks like...
...a hotel lobby.
Felix laughs. This makes so much sense. He wonders if there are travel brochures. He steps in.
There are chairs and sofas that probably floated once upon a time. There is no paper, nor plants. The decoration is either absent or decayed or destroyed. There is something that was probably a lift once, and doors behind the reception and across the lobby from him.
Felix wonders if this is a suitable shelter. It did stand for all this time. Are there stairs leading to the upper floors? Where do the doors lead to?
One of the doors leads to what was probably a restaurant, another to a backroom of some sort, but the last does lead to stairs.
As in "not about to collapse," sure.
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