CHAPTER DLXII

(THE WAKE-UP CALL)

“IT took you a bit longer.”

Emie reminded, not asking or scolding Pauleen and Farah in between.

“Things happen, but the most important thing is we are here.”

Pauleen replies with a cheerful tone, yet a smile that is provoking and a bit insulting. While she is directly giving it to Emie.

“That’s enough,” Winona warns the two of them.

As she knows that the pure darkness of their book and world’s original Pauleen and a drop of Gennivier’s darkness, never like Emie nor the latter.

“It is not the time to greet each other with some sour expressions. While we are on to something that we should be taking seriously.”

Winona reminded that Farah immediately agrees and breaks the two apart.

“Shall we four get along even for a while?”

Farah suggested that Pauleen, not that surprisingly agreed immediately.

“So, what now? We are all here. Are we just going to see each other in the eyes and have some tea?”

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