Closing his eyes and then opening them again not only meant another Friday had arrived, but also that the Thunder Moon had ended and the Month of Blossoms had come. This slightly chilly summer had officially entered its second half.
"What was I doing around this time last year?"
He murmured to himself as he sat up, flicked his fingers, and drew open the bedroom curtains.
"Shard, is it raining outside?"
The golden-haired girl lying beside him asked softly through sleepy eyes, and over the sound of the rain she gently greeted him:
"Lecia asked me to tell you good morning too. It's already August... and I've only written the opening of this month's manuscript."
Over breakfast, Shard told Miss Galina and Dorothy what had happened in Moon Bay yesterday. After eating, Shard took the cat and went back to Moon Bay, but he didn't immediately restore the cat from its toy state, because he was going to visit a dangerous "person."
