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"There's someone sleeping in here too, my lord, so there's only one room left."
Kovis dramatically turned back and whispered softly, "You go to sleep first, I'll just make do in the lobby downstairs for the night."
"?" Leon stopped in his tracks, struggling to pull his attention away from the distant future he was secretly daydreaming about, and looked up to ask, "Just one vacant room?"
Kovis shrugged his shoulders, then turned and pushed open the last small room—inside was merely a narrow plank bed, its bottom padded with straw, and the bedding on top was also quite rudimentary.
After all, this village's communal house was not a decent inn, typically aside from the room Lokhak occupied, the other spare rooms in the house were only enough for a few workers or travelers to rest.
