Chương 101: Devising the Board - Part 12

With her father gone, Ada had very little that kept her from her clandestine exploits within the castle. As long as she made it for her daily meals, lessons, and occasional visits to her mother and grandmother, she was otherwise trusted to entertain herself. And unlike her little brother, she couldn't easily be distracted by playing ball or riding down to the stream to muck about - not while she knew there was a war on the horizon. And certainly not when there was an elaborate and frustrating puzzle to be solved.

Thus, she sat cross-legged on her Uncle Ko's woven rug, plumb in the middle of his chambers, trying to take in everything she could - trying to make some semblance of sense of it.

Her father once said that a person's chambers are reflective of their comforts. Out of all places in one's home, it is the bedroom that will divulge the most accurate and telling information.