[b]Kim Judd[/b] Kim was about to introduce her self when another man entered the room. That made for an even group, probably intentional on the part of their hosts. Kim smiled and again was interrupted from introductions when Mr. Aust came in and led the group out to the limousine. Kim had ridden in one once for a friend’s birthday, but this limo was considerably nicer than the public rental one had been. At the manor introductions were made to the Wolf family. Gertrud reminded Kim of her own mother, and Sol’s excitement was palpable and contagious. Kim couldn’t help but smile. Even though Sol’s twin sisters seemed to think it overdone, however it made Kim feel truly welcome. Once Kim had her key to the room, a real key, she excitedly entered the room. Her things resting on a well cushioned bench at the foot of the bed. The room, though rooms would be a more correct term, felt wonderfully cozy. The colors were vibrant. The paintings in the room were of beautiful nature scenes, and one of a wave of butterflies. Kim could just stand there staring at it, but she tore herself way to read the note from Sol. [center]Welcome Kim! We really hope you have a great stay. Don’t forget the ball is at 9:00PM and drinks at 8:00PM in the entrance hall – we would hate for you to be late! If you need anything, just give the rope a tug, and Félix will come to help. Sol :) PS: I hope you’ve brought something nice to wear for tonight. Just in case, we’ve left you something in your wardrobe.[/center] Kim had, as requested, bought several formal wear, but she was curious as to what they had picked for her to have as an option. [hider Dress In Wardrobe] [img]https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/7f/77/82/7f77827eca64d4ad38b7a918374479c2.jpg[/img] [/hider] After a quick freshening, something small to eat, and changing into one of the dresses Kim had brought. Kim went downstairs. [hider Dress Kim is Wearing] [img]https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/8c/4b/68/8c4b680b3883ddb7283ed75f74758de3.jpg[/img] [/hider] [b]6:30pm[/b] Kim went first for a drink, again avoiding alcoholic, going for what looked like a wine spritzer. “Thank you Felix.” She smiled at the bartender and then started exploring the house a bit, drink in hand. Kim ended up in the library excited to see what books may be in a library such as the Wolf’s. Upon entering she noticed that the room was not empty, one of the men, Jonas if she remembered correctly, was already in the room. He was resettling after jumping a little at the sound of the door. He said, “Oh, hiya. I’m Jonas. I don’t think I got your name.” “Sorry for startling you. I’m Kimberly, but everyone calls me Kim.” Kim said. “Kim, okay, gotcha.” Kim caught finally where his accent was from. Midwest, probably Minnesota, if he said ‘doncha know’ she’d have to do her best not to laugh. “This place is… well it’s something.” That was an understatement. Kim smiled and shook hands with Jonas. “Yes I haven’t seen anything like it before.” Her eyes ran over the books with interest and a clear desire to look them over. "You a bookworm?"He asked. "I used to be. I wish I had more time to read." “Yeah I am. I’m a Librarian actually.” She paused and then focused on Jonas fully. “What do you do? I mean I’m curious because I wonder why we got chosen for this.” She swept her hand to indicate the Wolf Manor and the trip. "Social Worker. I work with families, mostly." He took a slow sip of brandy. "It seems like all of us don't have much in common, apart from bein' here, I mean. Not that I'm complaining." He started pulling out books at random, looking at their German covers. "My GPS went missin', though." "Interesting. I wonder what the others do." She frowned, took a sip of her own drink and glanced at the books that Jonas was pulling off the shelf. She couldn't read any of it, except for a few words here and there like "das" and ones that were cognates. Surely some were false cognates though, even if English was a close relative of German they were very different languages. "That's odd. I don't think anything of mine went missing. I'll have to look later to make sure. My phone certainly isn't working though." As Kim said that a tinge of worry colored her voice, and she shifted her drink between her hands. "Oh, geez. I didn't even check mine. I wasn't really planning on usin' it. These Wolf fellas are somethin' else. That Sol guy? Did he put a smiley face on your card, too?" "Yeah he did." Some of the worry left Kim at the memory of the card and Sol's strangeness. "I think it's endearing honestly. If he had been all stiff necked I'd probably feel even more like a fish out of water, but he made me feel rather welcome. He seems genuinely excited to have us here." She shook her head. "That's just odd to me. I thought the rich preferred to keep to themselves." Kim set her drink on an end table with the sun motif on it, and started looking at the books as well. Despite the clear difficulties Jonas was having looking through the books with a drink in one hand, he wasn’t putting the glass down. Kim didn’t say anything about it, but kept the observation to herself. "Seems like that Felix does all the work. Do you think rich people take charm classes?" He looked up from the book in his hand to her. "Like, 'How To Look Darn Good' classes, because geez it seems like charm runs in the family." "They just might. Maybe they still have finishing school." Kim said after she laughed. Kim opened the next book and looked at the publication information, it too was in German, but she understood the basics of what it should say that she really only needed to look at the numbers. Jonas spun around to face her, “Oh! I almost forgot. What's your room like? The decorations I mean. Did you get antlers too?" Startled by the question it took Kim a moment to realize what he was asking. "No, actually. I mean there were nature paintings, but no antlers." She shook her head. "I'm glad there weren't any in my room to be honest. That kind of thing weirds me out a bit." Kim pulled the next book down, there was no publication information in this one. She paused, and glanced at the cover. "Die Geschichte der Familie Wolf". She tilted her head slightly. "The something I can't read the Family Wolf. I wonder what's in this?" She held it up to show Jonas. "Maybe their grades from finishing school." She added with a grin. He chuckled and stood behind Kim, trying to look at the book over her shoulder. She shifted a bit uncomfortable "Ten bucks says Sol got high marks. Oh wait..." He moved away slightly and looked next to where the book was, and grabbed another. "There's more than one. Geez, my family history couldn't even fill a light pamphlet, these guys get whole books." He flipped it open, awkwardly with one hand still not putting down his drink, and added with disappointment after a moment of staring blankly at the text. "In German. Huh. Too bad." "Yeah, I can understand like one word out of ten, and most of those are 'the' and stuff like that." She shrugged and put the book back on the shelf. She paused for a moment. "There's a book missing." She touched the spot where a fourth book should be. Jonas looked intently at the empty spot. "Well, the boring explanation is that someone's borrowin' it. The more fun one is that someone didn't want us to see it." He said with a grin. Kim can't tell if he's excited about the mystery or just joking around. "If someone puts it back while we're stayin' here, then we'll know." "I'll look later for it, see if it shows back up." She frowned a bit wondering what the books could have in them. If her phone were working she could sit there with a translation app and try to translate the books she could, but without service there was no way to get an app on her phone. Maybe if they went into town later she'd download one while she had service. "Good idea. I think I'll head back to the booze room." Jonas started to leave, but he paused and turned around. "You going to that ball thing later?" "Yeah, see you there?" Kim asked, smiling. "Yah. I'll be the one snoopin' around." He smiled, heads for the door again, and adding just before he left, "Good to meet you, Kim." “You too Jonas.” Kim gave him a small wave and then went back to looking through the books, her drink forgotten on the end table.