A walking junk pile sits at a table in the tavern. She has quite a few books with her, along with a long sledge-hammer and a small pot-lid 'buckler'. Every once in a while, the 'maton moves a gloved hand to turn a page. Various book titles include: 'Phaenex for Everyone', 'The Lines and Sides of Alden', 'University of Alden's Class Scheduling', and three without titles. There is also an open, blank-ish book next to the one currently being read ('Children's Stories and Nonsensical Rhymes'), with notes every once in a while being made with crude charcoal by the same gloved hand that turns the pages.
The smell of burning coal fills the social club here.