RP post: A bath with Charlie

The window of the main room is open; the papers on the map table are weighed down with blades, stones, or other objects.

There is a fire in the fireplace, a large chair in front of it, ponderous and boding; but it is taken up by all three cats, curled up in a heap.

There is matte marble and terracotta tile in the bathroom, but the tub itself, much larger than a modern one, is of porphyry, a dark red stone that the Romans loved for their baths. It is full of hot water already.-