At Earl Hall's residence on Queen's Road, Audrey returned to the real world after the Tarot Club meeting ended.
She immediately sank into thought. After two conversations with Raphael, Audrey suddenly felt at a loss in many situations.
For instance, in today's discussion about how to keep Raphael effectively under control, every proposed method involved the strong controlling the weak.
That fit perfectly with the rules of the world Raphael had described before!
Audrey did not want to solve problems by those rules, but she found that the strong controlling the weak was a relatively stable form of human relationships.
At the very least, persuasion alone certainly would not make Raphael change.
This left Audrey feeling lost no matter what she did.
Just as she had during her work at the Loen Charity Education Fund two days earlier, when she had easily resolved a problem using her status as Earl Hall's daughter.
She knew perfectly well that she had been playing the role of the strong, while those who made concessions were the weak.
Yet if she had not done so, it would have affected the distribution of grants and prevented her from helping more students.
Unable to figure out what she ought to do, she had taken a few days off after the war began.
Over those days, she had kept considering this question: what guiding principles should she use to solve problems in the future?
As Audrey continued thinking, Susie, the large golden retriever, ran in with a ball in her mouth. She set it down in front of Audrey. "Audrey, there's a little sunshine today. Let's go play ball."
"Not today, Susie," Audrey said somewhat gloomily. "I'm thinking about a few things."
Susie gazed at the beautiful girl for a while before opening her mouth to ask,