"I thought you wouldn't come back to the Manor."
Sitting in the passenger seat, Puer spoke as she played with her tail.
Kallen turned to glance in the rearview mirror at the Hearse following them and asked, "Why wouldn't I?"
"Awkwardness, guilt, trouble..." Puer counted them off on her paw. "Then you'd want to avoid it all."
"None of those apply to me."
"Oh, fine. Then why did someone ask what the weather was like today?"
"Isn't that just how Vienese people make conversation?"
"All right, so now you're Vienese again?"
"Ophelia has come to Vien."
"Ah, yes, yes, yes."
"She wasn't in this district before. She was just transferred here, apparently to prepare to receive the Moon Order God Church's delegation."
"Generally speaking, branches of the same faith don't have much affection for one another. They fight all the more viciously instead, just like those churches that split off from the Sea God Church. They haven't had the strength to fight these past few years, but in the early days, they practically beat each other's brains out.
"Oh, right. You also mentioned those two gatekeeper sculptures you encountered in the Conjers Tomb. Dark Moon was actually a goddess too, and she very likely had a blood feud with Artemis."
"It's not about the blood feud now. The Moon Order God Church's arrangements make me question their real reason for having Ophelia receive them."
Puer said, "The fruit must be ripe."
"The Moon Order God Church sees Ophelia as ripe fruit?"
"Why couldn't it be you, now that you have the Eyes of the Dark Moon?"
"Me?"
"Be careful, Kallen. Oh, no, you don't need to be careful. You've undergone Orderization."
"You mean the person the Moon Order God Church is looking for is me?"
"Just like those Light Remnants