Tomiwa did not go home. Her guilt did not let her step out the door to her home. And to some extent, the fact that Nord did not come home immediately after seems to have helped her situation. She had more than one reason to stay in his house, even after he had sent her for it. When Nord had returned that night, for a dragon, he seemed to be reeking of alcohol. Which was strange; dragons had a high tolerance for a lot of things. And of those things, alcohol was amidst them. The only way that he would have wound up like that was if he allowed himself to drown in worries and thoughts. That was the surest way to make a dragon fall from its height. To make it doubt itself or live in fear. And Nord reeked a lot of it, alongside with alcohol. Belle was in for the worst. She shook with f

