Bibi was propped up in the library. The space around her was still and peaceful. She had been at Kamar-Taj for about 6 weeks and had garnered the reputation of a 'loner'. She hadn't spent any time with anyone but The Ancient One and it peaked the attention of a lot of her peers. Her reasoning, if one could call it that, had to do with her focus on rebuilding herself.

Before this, her life had been in shambles. It was mostly a chronology of being both painful and restless. Her parent's pressures to shelter her as she pursued her second Ph.D. at the age of 22 combined with her apt to be depressed caused her to take two bottles of pain killers.

The next time she remembered being conscious she was made aware that 6 months of time had passed, and that her parents had denounced her and cut her off. When the time came for her to leave the hospital she had nothing, her parents focus on her staying in school over everything else to pursue the second Ph.D. made it so that they were her primary care takers.

In that limbo, she was homeless, looked like a walking skeleton, and her mental struggle was getting worse and threatened more self-destruction. But at its worst, she also met The Ancient One.

Kaecilius remembered what she looked like when The Ancient One brought her in. The thing that struck him first was how frail she was. Her bones protruded from her skin and she was bruised up. When they made eye contact she quickly diverted her eyes away. Tears of shame welted in her eyes and leaked out the sides and settled in the dark bags under her eye. The Ancient One sat her down.

"Do you like tea?"

She nodded in response, wrapping her arms around her shoulders. The Ancient One stood and grabbed her a blanket, gently laying it over her shoulders. Kaecilius still watching as she performed the action.

"Kaecilius, will you bring us a pot of tea?"

"Of course" He did and brought it over.

"Thank you, please, leave us for the moment."

Now Bibi wasn't alone. Kaecilius was in the library too. Looking for something he hadn't already read. As he gathered some books he noticed her and smiled. She had gained some weight, and her caramel cheeks were slightly rosy. He noticed he was staring when she nervously looked up at him. They both quickly looked away and stood there for a moment.

His mind was racing thinking of what to do, he hadn't felt this way for so long. He approached the table.

"Do you mind?"

She peeked over the cover of her book.

"No."

He sat and joined her at the table, opening his book.