Lai blinked as he watched Cailina's cheeks tinted with a light blush. Her shoulders raised after her question. To her attendant, she appeared as a terrified maiden.
Cailina pulled her bottom lip upwards as she wrinkled her nose.
He coughed as somehow the words crashed with each other within his throat. He didn't expect to hear his master's curiosity about such things. His lady surely never ceased to say things that he never thought to hear from an Imperial Noble.
His mother told her that Imperial Noble ladies were tight-lipped about their thoughts and would not let even their closest maid know of it. He was entirely wrong for thinking of it, or perhaps his master differed from those women.
He appeared laughing at his master, and the latter inhaled and ordered him to leave. She could not take the embarrassment. Cailina glared at Lai, yet the latter pursed his lips.
