Sidney froze in place, then slowly turned his head, his face filled with terror. "D-did you see that just now?"
Elliot kept his face taut and nodded gravely. Victoria's appearance really had been a little... unique.
Victoria had tied her hair into two bunches, suspended on either side, and swung herself over.
She looked a little like a tram connected to overhead wires, and a little like a Guangzhou Twin-Tails being lifted by its whiskers.
It was oddly cute.
Sidney felt nothing of the sort.
His impression of Victoria was still rooted in that Library in Saint Clair, the image of her quietly reading lingering in his mind. When had he ever seen such an outrageous way of getting around?
"Victoria... heavens, it really was Victoria?! What's she doing in the Abode?!"
"She came to the bottom of the Sea of the Moon too? No, impossible. She couldn't have made it here..."
Sidney finally came to his senses and looked up at Elliot, his expression gradually turning strange. "I remember you saying she got caught stealing floor tiles from the Abode, then was too scared to leave the Library and could only spend all day on a swing?"
"Was that actually true?"
"No, I made it up." Elliot looked away.
Elsewhere.
Victoria sped along the ceiling, suspended in midair as she drifted rapidly between the bookshelves.
"Vanessa! Something's happened!"
"Huh?"
Vanessa stood up in confusion. The next instant, a dark shape rapidly grew in her field of vision. Before she could react, Victoria crashed straight into her!
A moment later, Victoria was carrying a dizzy Vanessa, swinging swiftly toward the depths of the Library.
"W-what exactly happened?"
"I saw a ghost!"
There was a trace of terror in Victoria's voice. "I just heard something in the Library and thought Xixi