Omake#23

"You've been doing that alot." Hastra says, breaking the rather long string of silences we've been experiencing. "Are you alright?"

My chest falls with a sigh as I ponder the question and snort, "Am I alright? No, I am but I don't think so."

Behind me she persists, "What do you mean?"

The Mansion is far from the walls that surround it, smack in the middle with all the auxiliary buildings. So it shouldn't be possible to glance a peek at anything beyond the walls from the Mansion, but the burning silhouette of the bonfire, the long wooden pikes and the stench of feces wafting through makes it hard to ignore.