(Next day— Afternoon)
The afternoon sun spills across my bed as I finally flop down, the silence of the room feeling like a luxury. My parents and the Dominion delegation are finally gone!
I'm still trying to process the weird energy between my sister Sylrienne and Adrian. They were glued to each other's side the whole time. It's such a bizarre… jealous sibling duo.
And Adrian… after that banana incident, he's been acting like a background NPC.
He felt like the main villain at our first encounter, but now he's barely a background character. I wonder what caused that shift—did someone put the fear of god into him?
I'm too exhausted to care. I bury myself in the blankets and drift off before I can even finish the thought.
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"My lady... my lady..."
Kael's faint voice pulls me from a deep, dreamless fog.
"Uhm? What?" I murmur into the pillow.
"The head engineers are asking for your time," he says, his tone as steady as ever.
