By the fourth shift, twenty hours later, Lucio, with his superior hearing, got the crucial news from the two guards who were whispering: the warden would be back by noon tomorrow, and should be bringing important people from the church, perhaps to do a final test on himself and determine the outcome of his treatment.This meant that the overhead monitors were no longer much of a threat to them, meaning that the leader they feared was not in the monitoring room outside right now. These wardens, all of them high ranking wardens, were bigger leaders than them, and could only be deputy wardens.Could it be, a warning to the father? They probably didn't know it was Father, but they must have guessed that Lucio had someone behind him.Whitney thought fast, but couldn't find an answer for the moment.Lucio was unconscious for more than five hours before reawakening; there was no clock in the cell, and he did not know the time of year, relying entirely on the frequency of the shift changes of

At the mention of it, Gabriela Pratt's mouth turned down in regret, "It's all Whitney's fault, saying there's so much treasure in this well and having to dig up some kind of treasure. And now it's turned into this..."The Grand Admiral's House had a visitor, a distant relative of his mother's who was in the main city of Gaia on business and had stopped by to visit the Grand Admiral's House. Whitney remembered that the visitor was his first cousin, his mother's distant cousin - Lamar Conway Yeon. The first cousin had brought his marriage partner, also a woman, and their child, a girl his age, to the Grand Admiral's house and had stayed there ever since. During this time Whitney used to go and play with the girl, only the girl was exceptionally rigid and earnest, and knew nothing at all of Whitney's jokes, and had to argue everything on its merits.Whitney later became unhappy and did not go to his again."Perhaps it would be warmer for us to cuddle together." Lucio Ginger suggested.It

Gabriela Pratt, who knew that a continent of gloom was coming, stood on her balcony late that night, staring out into the distant West, for a long time in silence. Then she saw Cassidy Manning, who was sitting on the outer eaves of a high-rise rooftop projecting not far from their balcony, undaunted by the terrifying height beneath her feet, gazing west with her.Gabriela Pratt thinks that if she keeps this up, she'll be a wreck and won't be able to do anything. But she'd come to love it, too comfortable for her to want to leave the exhibition.She was guarding, their soon-to-be-departed peaceful life.Gabriela Pratt sometimes wondered if Cassidy Manning would one day leave. What would she do when she left? The thought of it made her inexplicably panic and she was afraid to think about it. She wanted to keep the relationship going as long as she could, just as it was, preferably without the day of parting comes.The good thing was, Cassidy Manning hadn't asked for answers or pressed h