Coast of Bohemia Chapter 15

In which Cornelia embarks upon her first week at the Synthesis, gradually becoming acquainted with its austere disciplines and the varied temperaments of its students, from earnest to frivolous, each bearing their own hopes and hardships beneath a shared artistic faith. She finds herself both humbled and heartened by the community’s trials and enthusiasms, discovering in it a strange but natural inheritance that shapes her growing sense of belonging.