Aria watched Lucien limp down the trail with a worried expression on her face.

She stood at the doorway for a while longer, even after she could no longer see him. Without him being close to her, she somehow felt empty and lonely.

A fact which shocked her because she had spent pretty much all her life being lonely, and she had never thought of it as abnormal up until this moment.

A soft smile lingered on her lips as she rested her back on the doorway.

After a while, she turned back, shut the door behind her, then crossed into the bedroom to grab her herbal bag. She tied...