"Luvia, give the dice to Dorothy and let her roll too!"
Shade, still on the stairs, did not forget to remind Luvia. Once everyone had reached the second floor, he thought of something else.
"Emilia!"
The Elf Girl turned to look at him, only for Shade to pull her into his arms and give her a deep kiss.
"You really helped us out this time!"
The little elf's fair face began turning red as though she had been steamed. Luvia smiled with pursed lips and, together with Shade, took Emilia's hand to keep her from standing motionlessly in the doorway.
"Sometimes, Shade really feels like a child who never grew up."
After returning to the second floor and sitting down, Shade temporarily set aside his meeting with Miss Goode and gave Luvia and the others a detailed account of what he had experienced not long ago.
Meanwhile, the investigations conducted by the Witches and young ladies during Shade's "disappearance" had yielded nothing. Neither the Chosen One of Time nor the Chosen One of Space could detect anything wrong with the spot on the first floor where Little Mia had indicated Shade had "disappeared."
If Shade had returned any later, Luvia would probably have called Iluna over to help search for him, despite how busy she was at the end of the year.
"A space left behind by the Fated Old God? Theoretically, as long as the stakes are high enough, that place is practically an all-purpose wishing well."
Galina said. Of course, the rational Great Witch understood perfectly well what a wishing well that required stakes implied.
"Shade, I'm glad you didn't lose your head and keep gambling. Pulling out in time was the right choice. Never enter a casino with no upper limit on its stakes again unless there