Irilanze followed him over.
After the Elf Mentor moved in, Head Maid Abby added plenty of fruit to the food she prepared each day.
"I've never seen a Tower Spirit like that," she said.
Annan looked up. "You've met Lilith?"
"Mm. Last night."
"Lilith used to live with Asimov. Later, he entrusted her to me."
Something felt off to Annan... Last night? How had she met Lilith?
Bang!
The figure who shoved open the door interrupted Annan's thoughts. Mr. Fast stood lazily in the doorway, peered hard at Annan's face, then shook his head in disappointment and left.
"What was that about?"
Annan watched Faster walk away without a word, baffled.
"Maybe he wanted to see whether you had dark circles under your eyes."
"Why would I have—"
Head Maid Abby had just closed the door when someone pushed it open again.
This time it was Lady Deepwinter. Annan hurriedly greeted her. "Have you eaten?"
"Mm. I just came to see you." With that, she left too.
Annan was thoroughly confused. Just as he was about to sit down, another figure appeared in the doorway.
Copperbeard, Michael, and Francois came one after another, each taking a few looks at Annan before turning to leave.
Heavy footsteps sounded again. Luoxi appeared in the doorway, and Annan caught him red-handed.
"You—"
"Reporting in! Everything's normal!" Luoxi made as if to leave.
"Catch him!"
Irilanze's vine spell immediately wrapped around Luoxi.
"Lord Annan, I had nothing to do with it!"
"So someone else did?" Annan walked up to Luoxi with a piece of bread in his hand. "What are you all doing?"
"Please don't get upset. Everyone just came to see if you'd been crying..."
"Crying?"
"The news said the elves made you cry."
"Whose news?"
"Uh... our Kindred Spirits."
"Do you have