"As you wish." He said with a smile offering his hand out to her.
Probably not less than fifty feet down the hall, Liam pushed the doors open to the library, stepping aside to allow his wife in before him. There is was again, his wife. Liam was struck once again to just sudden it all seemed. Two months prior, when he was told he was being married, Liam spent a week in this room. Pacing around the bookshelves, thinking, coming to terms with it, realizing that the ideas of marriage that his mother had left him with were romanticized and perhaps woefully unrealistic for men and women of the higher castes. Marriage was a duty, but not a wholly unpleasant one. It had been memories of his Late Aunt Karen that convinced him of that. Her marriage to Ben had been sudden and between strangers, but she came to love Ben in a way that was evident for all with eyes to see. Before her passing, her entire being was one of love. At least, that's how he'd recalled her. He'd been little more than eight when Aunt Karen passed.
Liam followed behind Julia and into the library, the familiar smell of leather bound books and aging paper surrounded him comfortably. The library was a square room, perhaps thirty feet by thirty feet with a very high ceiling, likely on level with the ceiling of the second floor. The walls were plastered with bookshelves, all of which were brimming with books. In one corner of the room stood an ironwork spiral stair, leading to an ironwork catwalk on level with the high set of bookshelves. Two windows opened on the far wall, one on the ground level and another along the iron catwalk, both had an extended bottom sill with cushions laid out, a great place for sitting and reading. In the center of the room sat four very comfortable looking chairs around a small table. Atop the table sat a small crystal spire, pointing directly up to crystal chandelier, both of which shared a soft blue tinting to their otherwise translucent nature.
Liam walked around Julia and towards the crystal spire. "Welcome to the Library." He added before tapping the spire twice in rapid succession, causing both the spire and the chandelier to light up with a soft blue light. Filling the room with far more light than was coming in the windows since the sun moved well above them into the high noon position.