(Miluno)
Pfft-pfft-
Azura shook herself on the flagstone path for quite a while. Sirius and I crouched beside her to help brush her off, and only then did we barely manage to get all the fine sand off her, though she was still coated in dust.
Huff-
Then she let out an exhausted pant.
Sirius didn't mind the dirt and simply picked Azura up off the ground. Or perhaps she found her too heavy, because she shifted her onto her back, as though she were carrying a black cloth sack.
"You're still a little dirty. Once we get to my villa, I'll rinse you off."
Then she turned a beaming smile on Flow, who was trailing behind us.
"But before we go to the villa..."
She left the sentence unfinished.
Wearing my face, he asked in a rather girlish way:
"W-what?"
"You're a grown man. Stop dithering! You're wasting that handsome face Miluno lent you... it's about time you and Achernar settled things, isn't it?! Go confess to her!"
Sirius shouted, and Azura echoed her from her arms.
"Confess to her! Puyo!"
Though I wanted to know how things would turn out too, Sirius seemed far too invested.
I had a feeling there was some reason beyond mere gossip...
Nabu Island Prison was right before us.
After the expansion, the prison had walls nearly ten meters high. Looking up from the main gate, I could see projecting brick reliefs decorating the tops of the walls. It had all the imposing grandeur of a medieval castle; even Jadeite Stone Prison's underground dome hadn't left me this awestruck.
At the sight of Sirius, the magical prison guards in the gatehouse let us straight through.
Without even asking why we were here, one said:
"Here again? Achernar is giving a lecture to some