After leaving Pride House, Garvin and Vina spent some more time wandering around the city-state they had lived in for over eighty years. They enjoyed Vina's favorite pastries and afternoon tea, using a light-and-shadow camera to photograph every corner they cherished as a keepsake.
As the former president of the Water-Drawing City Daily, Vina had always been in the habit of using a light-and-shadow camera to frame and capture scenes. Her Memory Crystal contained almost the entire forty-six-year transformation of Water-Drawing City since the invention of the device.
Vina had originally planned to keep documenting things until she grew old, then, before leaving this world, compile it all into a documentary recording the city-state's changes. As she looked back over her own life, she also hoped to warn those who came after not to forget the generations of bitter struggle that had built it.
Of course, as a senior corporate drudge under a certain Silver Dragon, she could hardly avoid singing that dragon's praises. But Vina genuinely respected and thanked that lord for the changes he had brought about, so she did not particularly mind this rather blatant dragon-flattery.
At the very least, he had brought back a mature, self-disciplined Garvin for her.
It was only a pity that they were about to head into the Abyss.
Unable to complete this work in person, Vina could not help feeling some regret. At Garvin's suggestion, she could only entrust this historically significant "mission" to one of her nieces, hoping that a descendant of her family would be able to lay this small regret of hers to rest.
After that, they arrived at their own George Carriage Company.
It was the inheritance left behind by Garvin's father, George.
After George passed away, Garvin had not poured too many resources into expanding the