Messiah's prediction came true. Zarniya, who remembered everything from the banquet, had locked herself in their bedroom for the whole day. Messiah happily accompanied her while he wrote something on a piece of paper and read from various envelopes. But Zarniya had no mental space to give him any attention.
Zarniya turned out to have a high tolerance for alcoholic beverages, and despite drinking so much last night, she neither blacked out nor forgot any of it. Each time she unconsciously recalled a memory from that night, her entire body would stiffen, and she would pull the blanket tightly around herself, wishing she could vanish from existence due to the humiliation and embarrassment enveloping her.
