Alice rushed outside, this time her turn to drag someone by the hand. Everything had been going fine but somehow he had found herself running in the corridors, trying to get as far away as she could from that dining room and avoid everyone. The whispers had begun even before they left and Alice's ears were sharp enough for her to hear the words, inappropriate and foreigners. She didn't need to hear much after that, the context was very clear to her. They had called them inappropriate because they were foreigners.
Thinking of everything on her way back to the tower she scoffed, not knowing with whom she was more annoyed with. Was it Nacht or those pretentious royals, invited by Saaha specially to humiliate it, she couldn't decide.
