In the days that followed, neither the Lich maid nor the silver-eyed captain truly understood what had happened that night. Bauman herself was at a loss as to why she sang, or what song she had sung, but she did not care. As soon as she felt slightly better, she insisted on rising from her sickbed and returning to her maid duties in their team, ignoring the pleas of others to rest.
After a failed escape attempt, although Baojia appeared to treat her no different than before, Bauman felt that she had lost another chance to flee. The captain's routine night patrols not only started at the girl's tent, but now also ended there. While this development brought Bauman a sense of disappointment and a perverse kind of satisfaction, it gradually weakened her resolve to leave. If she couldn't escape, then let it be. She fell into a kind of resigned acceptance.
