Lillian felt as though she had forgotten something.
She spent a long time trying to remember, but nothing came to her. When she tried to rouse her spirituality and retrace that stretch of history, she inexplicably failed. "Strange. What's going on?"
The spirituality that had always obeyed her as readily as her own limbs seemed to have suddenly gone on strike. No matter how hard she tried, she could not do it.
"What does this mean?" She was a little bewildered. "Could it be... I've lost control?"
She stopped trying to retrace history and instead tried using her spirituality to do something simple.
"I'll do a divination." Lillian casually slipped the beaded bracelet off her left wrist. It was strung with crystals.
Crystals held a unique place in mysticism. They often performed poorly when used to divine objects, but when the subject of the divination was oneself, they had a unique effect.
However, this required the diviner to have worn the bracelet for a long time. The longer it had been worn, the better the effect.
Lillian's beaded bracelet was a keepsake left by her mother. She had worn it since childhood, and it had pointed the way for her countless times throughout her long life. "Hmm, I'll divine tonight's dream."
With that, she picked up the bracelet, but before she could do anything, her fingers suddenly slipped, and the bracelet fell.
Lillian hurried to catch it, but her fingers closed on empty air several times. Just like that, the bracelet slipped to the floor and shattered.
Lillian stood there blankly, then suddenly shuddered.
"No! I absolutely must not sleep tonight!"
Inside the Sterling Family's mansion, a card slowly began to emerge from the [Dream Entry] card slot once again.
The Difference Engine merely gave a low hum, and with