Day CCCIII, part II

My stomach did a 360°. I lost the strength in my legs and almost puked. It was a single thought doing. A thought that hit me stronger than any punch ever before.

After a moment I pulled myself together and just started running. Target, as before, was Velvet Lotus.

Hailwic was sitting on the stool next to the entrance, eating a sandwich, with ax leaned over the wall behind her, in arm's reach. Nobody else was around, it was obviously too early.

- Wow Peter, you want to see her so badly, that you run all the way here? - she asked with a big smile, but quickly realized I'm not in the mood for jokes, and her expression got more serious. - Go inside.

I nodded and opened the door. The pink-blue duo was playing dice on the bench on the left, but there was nobody behind the counter. They didn't pay any attention to me, so I went further, past the curtain, to the main hall.