Laia's eyes shifted from the roaring flames of the bonfire to the sleeping woman on Lucien's lap. "They were ungrateful to master back then. Why would she still save those people?"
Elisha ruffled the little girl's hair. She sighed, "Because she knows she can do something about it."
"That's not enough reason to save people."
Laia wrapped her hands on the bowl on her lap. A pair of cold white eyes were staring back at her.
On the side of their camp, Benu and Leo were observing them.
"Curious about the master you have made a contract with?" Benu tapped Leo's shoulder. 'Oh, you are almost skin and bones, I think I must have been like this before.'
"Tch," he rubbed off the part where Benu patted him. "Don't touch me."
"Aww… do you feel dirty being touched by a king? I wonder how you feel now that you knew that your master was an empress of two kingdoms," Benu smiled, his eyes turned into crescents.
