By the time Shade and the Blonde Young Lady emerged from the bedroom, Galina was sitting on the living room sofa drinking tea. The maids, who had not slept all night either, had prepared snacks and hot water. Little Mia, still bleary-eyed, had slowly climbed onto the back of the sofa to wait for Shade to sit down.
"You should thank me."
Leisha said irritably:
"If I hadn't kept you out of the bedroom today, you might have been getting intimate with Shade when you were suddenly summoned into the Council. No matter how well you covered it up, I don't believe those Witches wouldn't have noticed."
Galina did not mind her attitude at the moment. After all, if it had been her, and she had been interrupted halfway through, she would certainly have been even angrier.
Golden Eyes examined Leisha's attire, then said to Shade:
"Shade, sit down and let's discuss this. Bella notified the Speaker at the last minute, and that was why the Speaker called us all to the meeting. By the time our meeting began, 98 cases of 'Light Spontaneous Combustion' had occurred across the Moon Bay Area in just three hours. Seventy took place in the city, while the rest were scattered through the countryside beyond it."
"Nearly a hundred cases?"
Shade, who had just picked up the soft cat, asked in surprise:
"Although this phenomenon keeps occurring in Moon Bay, based on the previous frequency, there should have been no more than a dozen or so in one night. Besides, the citizens have been consciously drawing their curtains and avoiding excessive exposure to light. What happened?"
"Sivie is the Great Witch of Light, so she senses it most clearly. According to her, if the original Abnormal Light was a one, then tonight it suddenly