<div class="floatright">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/5/5e/Clarisse_by_bilopsis-d5xgb49.png)</div><div align="center"><strong><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;"><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: georgia;">Aelys Wimpenny (http://www.myth-weavers.com/sheet.html#id=159096)</span></span></strong></div><br/>When the trunk was brought into the room, a gleeful little leap went through her heart and it began to beat faster as she watched like a shy suitor as the others approached to study and select tomes from those within.  Feeling like a teenage boy at his first dance, she skirted the group, peering over and around them at the books within the trunk, nibbling her lower lip and trying to decide which one she would pick first.<br/><br/>Granted, there were books all over the room, but<em>these</em>books were special.  They were locked away, deemed dangerous and slated for a university, where only the most trusted scholars would be allowed to divine knowledge from their pages.  They seemed to radiate a kind of aura that drew her in and made everything else in the room fade to dull tones and distant sounds.  Her fingers and palms itched beneath her gloves, and she was dimly aware of peeling the calfskin from her hands and tucking her gloves into a pocket, leaving her bare skin to soak up the coolness of the air in the room.<br/><br/>A tiny tremor shot through her as she finally approached to kneel beside the trunk, reaching first to trace her fingertips lightly along its surface with a sigh of anticipation.<em>So close...</em>Her heartbeat quickened further and she hesitated a moment longer, taking pleasure from the growing tension and increasing desire.  Finally, she reached in and selected a book at random, knowing it mattered little which came first, for they would all be perused at length, ingested with great fervor and delight.  Before she handed these books over, she would take in every scrap of knowledge they contained.<br/><br/>Her hands closed over the book, one splayed beneath and the other sprawled on the top, sandwiching them between her hungry palms as she settled back on her heels and closed her eyes, exploring the texture of the covers and the secrets emanating from the book as object of great import, before ever opening to delve into the written knowledge it contains.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Psychometry (Appraise)</div><div class="spoiler_body">At 2015-10-26 16:21:35, Aelys Wimpenny (uid: 24594) rolls: 1d20a8 Result: 22 (https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=81650)<br/><br/>Rolling to get whatever psychic impressions she can off the book she picked.  Feel free to select whatever book you like, Andi, since she's planning to do this with <em>all</em> of the books, eventually.</div></div>