Home sweet home

[like_quicksilver]

Even Gyda knew she couldn't sleep in the bar, though the large chairs and sofas there were comfortable. She figured if this was anything like a Hall, there would be rooms attached, and indeed there were all sorts of rooms attached to the bar. Most of them weren't, in fact, for lodging, but she had a fun time exploring. There were stables, a room with...Gyda wasn't sure, but a lot of large, metal enclosed carts and racks, but it took her a good ten minutes to get her head around the library. Who on earth had time to read so many books?

Leaving the library, she eventually found corridors with what were clearly sleeping chambers. So many rooms, many of them had names on them already.

Did Lady Bar have a room for her already? Or did she have to pick one for herself-and would it already be furnished?

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[iamhismummy]

"We'd have to go downstairs to the Bar - but unless you like them better, you don't need them." She gives the younger girl a quick grin. "Watch."

[like_quicksilver]

"How'd you light this without fires?" She watched as she turned on the strange switch, her eyes blinking when the lights on the ceiling switched on.

"Odin...how does it work?" Lights without fire?

[iamhismummy]

"It's called electricity", Nancy explains. "Sort of like lightning, but tamed."

[like_quicksilver]

"Lightening..." She carefully reached for the switch, her hand braced as though she nearly expected to be harmed by some sort of power. Flipping it off, then back on again, her eyes widened when she saw how easy it was. "They've tamed the power of Thor."

Studying the light made her blink and her eyes water, but that didn't stop her from looking. The switch was so easy and quick, and yet it was stronger than any fire source.

[iamhismummy]

"Look away", Nancy says quickly. "You'll hurt your eyes."

[like_quicksilver]

She wasn't lying. While Gyda's eyes weren't hurting exactly, they were starting to water and she found herself having to sneeze.

"Is there anything else I should know?" Clearly there was more to this room than just what it appeared.

[iamhismummy]

"Probably a lot of things." She offers a crooked grin. "Just wait 'til you see the bathroom."

[like_quicksilver]

"What's a bathroom?" They had toilets of course, but they were outside, and baths were usually by the fire and in private.

She stepped inside, curiousity taking over as she started moving a hand over the table, chest of drawers, the bed. Her attention also turned to the door in her room, going over to see what was on the other side. If it was in her room, then clearly she was allowed to open it.

Inside was dark, but a quick look to the wall showed another switch. Gyda smiled when she turned it on, glad to know what the switch meant. "Is this what you were talking about?"

[iamhismummy]

"That's right. And you can have all the hot water you want, when you want."

That blew even her away when she found it.

[like_quicksilver]

"How?" Hot water whenever she wanted, that sounded like a luxury. Even back home, the only way they would get hot water was boiling it over the fire.

[iamhismummy]

"It comes in pipes. And they keep it hot in a big tank somewhere, so it just gets pulled here when you - here, to get water you turn these things. This one for cold, this one for hot."

[like_quicksilver]

She followed her to the strange white basin, her attention torn between that and the looking glass, her hand going towards it.

"It's so clear." They had mirrors of course, but they were made of bronze and other metals, not this material.

She dropped a hand and tested the knobs as directed, her jaw dropping when actual warm water poured through the pipes. "Wonderful."

[iamhismummy]

"Isn't it amazing?" She grins. "Never seems to run out, either."