Meanwhile, William and the others were entirely unaware of this and were currently outside the school premises.
Seraphina had asked if they could visit the popular steam bath nearby, and since it sounded like a good idea, he agreed. Kai and the others tagged along, including his seemingly new partner from the incident with Derek.
The steam bath house was called Mireille's, which was either the name of the person who had founded it or simply a word someone had decided sounded appropriate for a place where people went to be warm and unbothered.
It sat at the edge of the town district that bordered the academy's western grounds, close enough to walk to in twenty minutes and far enough that the academy's ambient essence concentration dropped away and the air felt different, the particular lightness of a place that wasn't saturated with cultivation energy.
