The two bodyguards left immediately. Seamus and Persephone were the only ones in the house.

Seeing her battered appearance stirred anger and pain within Seamus.

"We brought a significant amount of ointment from Centrolis." He placed the burn ointment in her hand. "I noticed you burned your arm. I'm unsure if other parts of your body are affected, so I can't assist there. Examine yourself and attend to any injuries. I'll be waiting at the door. Call me when you're finished."

Persephone remained motionless, tears streaming from her vacant eyes.

"Miss!"

"Why did he do that to me?" She trembled. "He told me he liked me last night!

"He's been the one protecting me since I came to Flinge... How did he change so abruptly? Is he no longer protecting me because the breakfast I made sucked?

"Tell me why?!"

loud, wrapping her head

been squatting in front of her, stood up slowly,

before, he stood before her like a

He chuckled. 'I should intertwine her destiny

effort into something that won't work. He doesn't

didn't even look up, turning

girl for these two days. We'll return to Centrolis soon," he

the Hamertons or

his status would ascend. He would be extraordinary...

Persephone felt as if her heart were

out of her mind, but his image persisted. The chair triggered visions of him sitting there while the cabinet brought back memories of his boxing gloves

recollections of the mountains and forests he had once shown

she managed to

was consistently absent from home, leaving a rotation of peculiar-looking

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