The blazing white lights flickered faintly across the cabin ceiling, then settled back into stillness a moment later.
Larkspur spread her suitcase open on the bed and knelt beside it, taking stock of everything she would need for the rest of the journey.
After taking out the things she would need and sorting the remaining items into categories, she finally closed her suitcase, sat on the bed, and let out a long breath.
By then, the sky outside the window had long since turned black with night.
On the bed opposite Larkspur, Xia Liang wore headphones, her fingers occasionally swiping across her phone screen as video images reflected in her pupils.
"Sorry."
Larkspur spoke first.
"...Hm?"
Hearing Larkspur speak, Xia Liang removed one side of her headphones and looked at her curiously. "Why are you apologizing?"
"Staying in the same room with me must feel rather boring, right?"
Larkspur looked at her. "I don't really understand what young people these days like. Most of the things you're interested in are things I can't really join in on, so just like now, we can barely talk at all."
"Eh... is that so? I don't think so."
Xia Liang rested her phone against her chin and thought for a moment. "Even if I were rooming with Xiao Lu, we'd probably just curl up on our own beds and play with our phones, wouldn't we?"
"Really?"
Larkspur was somewhat unconvinced. "Logically speaking, you're about to go to the Kingdom for the assessment. Shouldn't you be nervous, excited, or looking forward to the future? At a time like this, shouldn't you have endless thoughts to share?"
"No... we've already talked about that stuff plenty before. You'd think there would be something to talk about, but at times like this, there's actually nothing much to