The Common Room

scholars' club

The club of all four academies: a long panelled room of worn leather armchairs, chess tables and a dark bar where tea is served from a brass urn and gin is made in the Margin from the Edge juniper. In the evenings the Lyceum watches who sits with whom; at nine, by old custom, anyone may read aloud a paper before submitting it, and its subject, if present, may answer once. Zhang Yun keeps a table by the window, where she shows the forms in the evening and loses at chess on purpose to see who gloa...

Located in The Möbius Academy.