"A very far away land indeed, yes," Armand confirms with a mild, almost distracted-seeming nod, although on that point he doesn't elaborate any further from there, instead gazing out briefly into the night with a distant and vaguely remote expression on his face. "Although my studies took me much closer, from Rome and then into Paris."

Then, smiling, he regards her again, warmth lighting up his amber-colored eyes.

"You'll enjoy the library here, then— it holds hundreds if not thousands of different books on every variety of subject you can imagine. And literature too, of course. All at no cost to you. Most days I can easily spend several hours in there, myself, reading quietly from their stacks of volumes."