章 142: A Protector's Thoughts 2 (Ch.140)

~How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure~

-William James

Ryuu currently did not have the energy to cast blames, all he wanted was assurance that his charge was okay, otherwise Ryuu felt he might just loose the last ounce of sanity he desperately held on to.

Ryuu was drawn out of his thoughts when Aquilia stepped out, arms stained with blood she held a basin filled with bloody water, Ryuu could recall when he had fetched the heated water and how clear and pristinely clean it had been with the only thing interrupting it's state being the steam which rose out of it to indicate the water was boiling hot.