"Lia..."
"Aerus? Aerus?" Lia was delirious, her head shook several times as if to wake herself up. Her breath caught in a profuse sweat until finally her eyes widened and she screamed. "Aerus!!!"
Then her body went limp as if she had just fought a terrible battle. That's true. Lia just fought with her fear.
Sweat dripped down her face in the morning. Her wildly shuddering eyes looked around, finding a familiar room that evoked her memory. "Cindy!" Lia sobbed when she found her close friend sitting at the end of the bed, looking at her sadly.
Lia sobbed while hugging Cindy, crying over the departure of Prince Aerus which she couldn't stop. "He goes? Isn't he? He's gone right?" asked Lia repeatedly, crying even more hysterically, and her body shaking even more.
Cindy's eyes filled with tears. Her voice seemed unable to come out as she wanted to say some consolation. All she could say was, "That's right."
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