For an underground lounge, this one is particularly clean and tidy. Well-maintained, too – there is not a single speck of dust on the flooring nor on the walls that are minimally decorated with contemporary paintings. Remnants of early twenty-first century, though they are worth close to nothing lest sold to a rich city dweller. Art, for all its antiquity, is completely nonessential in apocalyptic Earth.
Books, too, are nonessentials if not academic. The lounge has bookshelves so stacked yet neatly and alphabetically organized – it really reflects the personalities of the people who live here. Allaire takes a seat on an olive brown sofa.