Kapitel 32: Heartstrings

The suite was awfully quiet upon Deus' return. His immediate assumption that Histoire finally succumbed to the medications effects and the pharmacist's advice to spend the rest of the day was immensely accurate. Her fever would not desist to perturb her otherwise and it was possible her health could worsen. Histoire appeared at the office drenched and shivering with a head so heated that his normally chilly hand concluded that something was amiss.

However, the sky had been covered by a thick sheet of dark clouds since the previous evening. She was not so slow-witted as to leave the mansion without an umbrella and without observing the weather to notice that it had been drizzling that morning. Yet she was completely soaked and shivering almost violently. Her breathing was hitched as well, but he doubted either a fever or the cold was responsible.