rainaut shows brother peire around

And the first thing to do is to learn exactly what home entails – the buildings, the gardens, the livestock, the industries and residences and holy places. What people do, where they do it. He hopes he'll find at least one thing he recognizes, one familiar thing, that can remind him of the friary without the attendant empty feeling of a place he'll never see again.

They walk out the gate and turn around so that they're facing the wall and the former monastery behind it.  "If we were to walk along the wall that way" - Rainaut points off to the right - "eventually it would turn into a low rock wall and we'd be at the fields - wheat for us, grass for the sheep.  We can walk out there if you want.  But say you've just arrived and you want to announce your presence and there's no one at the gate."  He gestures to the wooden doors, which are open.  "You can just walk in and keep going until you see someone, or you ring the bell."  He goes through the doorway, gesturing for Brother Peire to follow, and takes the rope hanging from the bell just inside the gate.

( I don't think I need to ring it, he says. )

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brother peire finds a job and has a bit of a crisis

"You were a friar, were you not?" one of the men asks Brother Peire, and to Rainaut he adds "Show him the copy room."

The copy room is at the end of the long hall. There are only three desks, placed to catch as much light as possible.

"There should be someone here," Rainaut comments, sounding a little confused. "In any case, this is the copy room. Copyists work as long as there's sun, although in the winter they resort to candles. We have a library, as you saw, but a lot of the scrolls and manuscripts there are in bad shape – some of them were left by the monks, who probably thought they were a touch too blasphemous to take when the community disbanded. So we copy them more legibly. We also have a few books of scripture, and yes, before you ask, you'll consider it heretical scripture, and we want to copy those to help seed other communities like ours in other places." He gestures to the only desk that looks as if someone is working at it. There are pens and open pots of ink and sheets of parchment, and on a table next to the desk is an open book which is apparently the manuscript being copied. "How similar was the copy room at the friary?"

( It was next to the library, Brother Peire says. )

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