Rowena broke down in tears.
"...I do miss him. We always celebrated my birthday together even if I insisted that we do not." Rowena's eyes brimmed with tears as she clutched Raphael's shirt. "I miss him so much, so terribly that I can't find it to let him go—even though I should."
She continued, "I feel like I'm just hurting myself, but I'm clinging so hard. Whenever there's a moment, where there's silence, a shadow... I can find him there."
Those words would have made Raphael feel a little jealous, except for the fact that he heard the word 'birthday' and immediately became shocked.
It was Rowena's birthday? It was, wasn't it?
How could he forget such an important day?
As Lucent, he was even brought back to Rowena as a gift—so how could he have forgotten that?
But then Raphael caught the last parts of what Rowena said and thought about it some more.
How to kill two birds with one stone?
