Back at Devonshire, I had hoped to be greeted with the same reproachful gaze which had been bestowed on me by Mary when I’d withdrawn from Kai’s estate the day before yesterday, but it turned out that the handmaiden still harboured the same concern which I had received from her at my arrival in this town, and it prohibited her from demonstrating any bitterness in her regard for me.
“Where has she been?” enquired Mary, inspecting my arms and legs to ascertain the amount of damage that I’d incurred. “What are these marks on her body, master?”
Persuaded that the horrifying set of events which succeeded my venturing alone in the streets of this unknown land was his fault, Kai struggled to make any answer and proceeded forward with the same distress in which he’d found me at his Delta’s reso
