Bab 51: Heart to Hearth, Part 1

Note: Edited 19/09/23

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Great. It took me all four days to make my first friend in the Academy and then torpedo that friendship into oblivion with a single careless action. But I couldn't just let it go. Not when I'd spent so much time trying to get Liara Lockwood to trust me. 

"Listen, I—"

Liara wasn't keen to hear my excuses, however, and she left me behind the Golden Bow's tent without giving me a chance to apologize again. Divah didn't raise a quitter though, and so I chased after the she-elf, but then I lost her again in the crowd of half-drunk partygoers and dancing bodies. 

"Will!" Dess called for me while she danced with Delphine and Brunhilde in front of a nearby bonfire. "Come join us!"