Late night always stirred people's urge to talk.
Many land-dwellers went through a phase like this:
Around noon and into the afternoon, they felt their energy draining away, their attention losing all weight, their emotions stiffening.
Gradually, speaking became difficult, and they used "Mm" and "Okay," "Uh" and "No" to express their thoughts and words.
But after night fell—usually after the good children had gone to bed at ten o'clock!
Their desire to talk came back to life.
The eloquent person, the one who quoted classics with ease, came back to life!
They became impassioned and heartfelt, talking about existentialism one moment and using half-understood classical existentialism to interpret modern classics the next!
Witches were the same at midnight.
Because Kraken had called Witch House and booked Jiang Han's afternoon in advance, then legally and reasonably speaking, Jiang Han accompanying Kraken today did not count as slacking off. It counted as work.
Yet it was also somewhat different from work.
From afternoon through evening, Kraken remained in work mode.
She stayed in her office, maintaining that unfathomable yet authoritative air as she reviewed, approved, and signed document after document. Then she had the maids contact certain witches, met those witches in the electronic library, and issued instructions.
Jiang Han discovered that the range of people she met was astonishingly broad—one could practically call it everyone from every walk of life, from refined high art down to the common masses.
Among those of lower status were students and guard witches who patrolled the academy and South City.
Among those of high status were major club owners, business proprietors, Archwitches with established standing, and even Lilith, that great witch—when Lilith saw Jiang Han there, her expression stiffened. Her silent face seemed to be saying:
[But I was the one who made an