Chapter 76

• The front doors opened into a large main room with a vaulted ceiling three floors high. There were doors on all the walls of the huge room and stairs that led to a balcony that circled the room and led to the second and third floor balconies. There were lots of overstuffed couches and chairs arranged around the room so that several groups of people could sit and talk with each other in separate little areas. There was a gigantic fireplace on the far wall and the room as a whole was decorated with a lived-in, worn, comfortable, antique feel.
• As they walked through the room to the stairs there was a lot of staring. But no one said anything. Aislinn noticed that everyone seemed to be in jeans and plain t-shirts. It almost looked like they were wearing a uniform. She figured that no one had time to pack a bag before coming out here for the fight. They were all wearing clothes from the closet storeroom she guessed.
• Cullen led Aislinn up the stairs and along the third floor balcony. Then they headed through another set of doors and down a long hall. His room was at the end of the hall. Aislinn smiled when they walked in and she found herself in a room that could almost be a replica of his bedroom back at the Madadh-Allaidh Saobhaidh. There was a lot of dark blue. The first room they walked into had a desk and a couple book shelves and a sitting area with a television and a couch similar to the ones downstairs. There were a couple doors. One led to the bathroom and the other to the bedroom.