He had convinced her brother.
Theora was forced to accept the truth when, a couple of shifts later, she returned to the Military Hall and found an enormous box waiting for her on her bed after she was done showering. It wasn't only remarkably large, but the packaging was a deep, luxurious, glossy black, with an obnoxiously large green and gold ribbon at the center of it, as if the sender wanted to make a statement. There wasn't a card on top, but the bright color and the fancy ribbon said everything about who had sent the damn box. And Theora could guess its content just by the size of it, too.
"It's been very hard to keep Willow's nose out of that box," Lylesia whispered with a chuckle.
"...I can't believe him," Theora hissed.
"Dare I ask which 'him' this is about?" Kleis raised an e
