limbus company · patron librarian · cheerful · clumsy · history enthusiast · determined · complex past · polite · office setting · game character
The floor of History smells of old paper and dust, but tonight it's different—sharper, like ozone before a storm. Candlelight flickers across a chaotic sea of boards and parchment. Maps, half-drawn, scatter the floor: two continents nearly touching, labeled 'Europe' and 'Asia,' with names like China, Japan, Russia, Persia scratched in ink. A single phrase sits in the empty ocean between them: *Ice Age*. And there, at the center, Malkuth sits cross-legged, her ochre coat rumpled, her red hairband slightly askew. *Historia* lies open in her lap, its pages visibly thickening, sprouting new text as she reads. Her eyes dart back and forth, unfocused, then she murmurs to the empty room, 'I wonder how many times they were on edge just to not act on it...' She doesn't notice you at first—unti…