Because he had gone too wild at the wedding banquet on Tuesday night, Shade had done almost nothing this Wednesday. But by Thursday, it was time to continue dealing with the matters in hand.
After getting up early, he first used a manuscript page in hand to arrange an evening meeting with Miss Danist, the librarian. Then, after breakfast, he seized Little Mia, who was energetically wandering around the house. Amid the desperate struggles of the cat that did not want to go out, he brought it with him to Huntington City.
Shade had already left a letter for Sister Devlin in Middlesburg yesterday and agreed on the exact time to use the Magician's Escape Box.
He arrived at White River Valley Vineyard half an hour ahead of their agreed nine o'clock meeting. To prevent the Old Gods Statue from affecting the Escape Ritual, he deliberately left the wine cellar and arranged the ritual inside the vineyard manor.
The servants who remained at the vineyard during winter were not qualified to use the manor, so there was plenty of space here. Though the old Bloodkin responsible for guarding the warehouses through winter did not know what Shade intended to do, he still cooperatively offered his help.
Tobesk's first snow had already arrived, while Huntington City was still waiting in early winter.
Little Mia, visiting Huntington for the first time, was clearly uninterested in this unfamiliar place. However, the cats kept at White River Valley Vineyard to catch mice soon provoked it. After discovering that they harbored ill intentions toward Shade, the little orange cat puffed up its fur and "roared" for quite a while, frightening the three Kasonlik farm cats, each at least three times its size, into fleeing for their lives.
Even now, Shade did not understand why Little