Chương 126: Solution worth remembering

"How do you want to do it?"

Looking down, I locked my gaze right on Claire's deep, extremely expressive eyes. 

Just like there were people who could see a world in a drop of water, I could now see a word in those deep, brown eyes of hers. 

But, as nice as it surely would be to move to the next step… 

"I'm sorry, but can we hold on to it for a short moment?" I suddenly asked, as if to throw a bucket of cold water over Claire's head. 

Her eyes twitched, proving I managed to take her by surprise. In the end, however, she didn't react all that much. Instead, her mouth relaxed a little as it turned from a small, dreamy smile into a thin line and even her eyes grew more serious. 

"I knew it," Claire whispered, her voice empty of any sort of sense of achievement or correctness. Instead, she appeared to be quite concerned, seemingly out of nowhere! "There is something troubling you, right?"