She has to squint a little to determine if that's meant to be a four or a nine; she is simultaneously relieved and disappointed. "Fourth floor, then, unless there's a room zero somewhere." The building did not seem tall enough for forty-one floors when she saw it from the outside. "At least the trip up will be short."

But even for the long years away from a situation like that, Ruka intensely misses the view and some of the solitude that comes with living on the top floor of a tall building. But then, it was hard to tell the structural integrity of any of the buildings in this world.