บท 84: Greeting the departing King (2)

«I forgot to ask you how you're feeling today,» Ignis says. He'll keep me here against the wall forever.

«I am fine,» I sigh. «I admit I was a little hasty, but it didn't hurt much, to begin with. Not something I want to repeat, but it's not a disaster either.»

He seems content to hear my surrender.

«I forgot something, too, yesterday,» I add.

I take out my favourite hair tie, the one I used yesterday, and I bind it around Ignis's wrist.

«I wanted to do this yesterday before leaving, but you were so cute while sleeping that I forgot about it.»

I spent so much time watching him sleep that I almost got caught by the servants doing their early chores.

«How did you sleep?»

«Well,» he sighs. «I haven't slept so well in a while.»

«When did your insomnia start? When you became the King?» Is it due to the ghosts hunting him?

«Long before that. When I came back from the first war.»

«And it was...»