"Did Damien, by chance, come to meet you?" Joyce had gone to see Ariel in her room when she didn't find a trace of Damien and Kenneth in the castle.
Osanna was tying the lace of Ariel's bodice when Joyce walked into her room.
Ariel felt as though Joyce was there to tease her early in the morning when she asked her about Damien. Thus, she frowned and dismissed Joyce's question. "Stop it, Joy. I am not in the mood to be teased."
However, Joyce went and stood right beside her and asked in a rather serious voice, "No, Ariel. I am not teasing you. I need to know where Damien is for real. I was with him and… um… with him and Kenneth a while ago. But…"
"But?" Ariel suddenly looked interested in the conversation because Joyce mentioned Damien and Kenneth in the same sentence. She was afraid that the two of them might have been involved in a fight like how they used to.
