Mm.. about five months or so now, I'd say. Give or take a week or so.

[ they've had plenty of time to settle in and get used to this place, as it were, and while he would much rather be home, at least, he thinks, this place is far better than reverie. though tighnari is wearing a heavy sweater with a thick turtleneck, alhaitham might just spy the scars around his throat. ]

As for a library, yes, there's one in the village. It's no House of Daena, but you'll have plenty to read to occupy yourself.