Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6192846-20140806122913/@comment-6192846-20140830204247

Here's the library scene:


 * Hanne goes to the library and finds the portrait; she stares at it until a man obscuring his face with a cloth notes it was rare to have visitors.


 * Hanne has a habit of scratching her head every now and then; this is because she hasn't washed her hair in days (foreshadowing the fact it's dyed).


 * The man is male (this is probably the VI she recognizes towards the end) and they get in a small conversation over who she is and what she does; the librarian then offers for her to check their vault and she goes searching.


 * The Shuburke Newspaper is a company under the Freesis Foundation umbrella.


 * I'm not sure why but the librarian and Elluka are getting into an argument; the world police comes up as well as the "lost list" for Yukina's Freesis Fairy Tales. I am under the presumption Elluka can't find the Flower of the Plateau story Yukina wrote anywhere.


 * Freesis Foundation is also the founder of the World Police as a means to look out for their own interests and crack down on illegal activity internationally.

Overall, Chapter 1 seems to be a set up. It's three scenes that covers roughly 40 pages, Hanne on her ride to Calgaround, Hanne interviewing Julia, and Hanne getting the plot rolling after discovering the painting with Mikulia at the library.

Of those, we mostly get lots of world building and a lot of exposition regarding Flower of the Plateau. Before this, the prologue just establshed some facts about Margarita and set up the intrigue of her close friend being Elluka Clockworker.

I'm going to try to do this with the next few chapters so we at least get some idea how the events are playing out. We can then go back and focus on fleshing out scenes more to better understand the why's/how's.