The university was nearly deserted, as all of the students and much of the faculty had gone away for the holidays. The quiet landscape was filled with a motley collection of building styles, most she assumed were recent and a few that had likely stood for eighty years or more. She liked those, the elegant brick edifices with soaring towers covered in winter-leafless ivy vines. The ground was covered in snow, with the broad expanses of white broken by strange, shapeless concrete and ...