Tamie woke up after many days of sleep and soon fully recovered. She would often sit at a table with her ‘sisters’ in the hall and enjoy her time with them. She attested to Tiger’s vision of the strange handsome boy and explained it was the manifestation of her muse, Byakuya, whom she used in her stories, but said nothing about the dream she had and the meeting with Byakuya, or rather, his second face, Kokujin (she felt that her dreams about the muse were too personal, so she didn’t like talking about them). But even the confirmation that the ‘handsome boy appeared out of the scroll’ was Tamie’s muse, brought great worries to Nick. He, as a Sage of the Keeper Class – the Class of knowledge – knew too well that muses could be summoned only by professional Writers at Grandmaster ranks – the

