As one might expect to see in a troubled marriage, I lay on my bed alone, wrapping my arms around myself to keep warm. For some reasons unknown, it didn’t feel good to be without company for the first time in forever. The cause of this loneliness was difficult to pinpoint, but I was certain that it had nothing to do with Tobias, for I knew I could endure being rejected by him, or could I? I somehow ruled out that I might be feeling this longing for the older knight instead, something that could’ve been the outcome of the conversation I had with the Delta. “Whenever I talk about him, it feels as if he’s still alive somewhere, waiting for me to get to him and once again make him mine,” I muttered my thoughts out, holding back the tears that emerged in my eyes from realising how wanting t

