It's hard to know whether it would or would not come as any great surprise to his former fellows if they knew how quickly and efficiently he'd taken to the library; on the one hand, he's a mercenary bastard who spent most of his adult life living by the sword, and on the other, libraries are the basis of all scholarship and he has always been nothing if not an accomplished scholar.

In any case, the overly tall gentleman who joins Rachel looks thoroughly at home with both the books and the antiquated air of the place. He is, after all, an antiquated sort of a man.

"Come this way," he says in lieu of a greeting, though he's pleasant enough - he can be charming, when he wants to be, but he only wastes words when he feels like listening to himself talk. (Which happens.)