Nesah quickly turned her head, surprised (and somewhat offended) that someone had dared to disturb her stream of consciousness. She recognized the other woman however, and her mouth curled into a smile. She remembered how outrageously strange this one had been, but she had visited the museum three times already, got weird glances when she dared enter the reading room unattended, and was too annoyed with ill-mannered children to go to the public baths. A little circus was a welcome change of entertainment. "I suppose it is," she said. "Could do without the smell of fish."