The time passed and the eve before the departure came faster than the morning snow. Violet hesitantly took out the coat from the cabinet and covered herself warmly.
"What am I even doing…" She spent more than a month in the Duke's castle since the day she was just supposed to deliver the porridge. It should have been an ordinary event during which she did her job when suddenly the location of the Sage was discovered and instead of going back to the town, she ended up in the Northern Mountains.
One thing led to another, she saved Cassiel by consuming the thousand-year-old ice lily, forced the aloof king of doctors to save the duke, had a close encounter with death when trying to make a medicine she never attempted before, and had her first taste of alcohol, a night affair and finally, the last day before day separated was here.
