Stuffy old men who were too full of themselves is something I'm unfortunately familiar with.

[ Ravka happened to have its own fill of those type of people. They had their uses but Nikolai agrees with the unsaid words: they were boring and needed to go.

He does follow along with her rather easily, tossing the mathematics book aside. ]

Impressive that they've allowed accounts that aren't biased in the library. I know some places that wouldn't.