章 107: ~ 107: A Place With More Foes Than Companions - Part 6 ~

'What a brave woman to touch him like that,' I commented inaudibly with a smirk. 'I wonder why I am not doing anything when I feel like he's toying with her and not endangering himself.'

I wondered if we had switched places or had some of his behaviour rubbed off on me. But then it was because he had still left his shields open and sometimes, I was able to see what he was thinking as I sneaked into it like my own home.

This was the joy that Lucas must have enjoyed from seeing my shields open. But this was a dark person's mind where only tainted thoughts stayed. And yet I was entering the place, despite knowing the dangers that lurked there.

"That was a very beautiful trick and show that you put up, Miss Moreau," he said with a smack of his lips. "Rubbing the glass with Legrand's arsenic tonic so that when the person drinks it, they shall faint and die a slow death. Were you so eager to ask one for yourself, dear Lilith?"