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"Ughh..."

Groaning as I woke up from bed, I blearily blinked out the throbbing headache forming in my temples as reoriented myself. Sure enough, I was still in the palace, alone in my room as I forced myself to stand.

"D-Damn..."

Last night's Dinner had been... an experience? It all flew by so fast to me... It honestly felt like I didn't even do anything. Shizu was doing all the heavy lifting in terms of conversing with the Emperor, and Guidance was uncharacteristically quiet during the whole thing. Meanwhile, I acted like an honest to gods idiot that didn't even remember what we talked about. I remember talking about some kind of communications thingy... and Terran something... Then the wine started flowing and it was all a blur from there.

"This... This isn't good..."