Chapter 81🎀 · BMMAW

Only One Thing Remains

A rooster crowed somewhere.

Lizzy opened her eyes.

It was still dark all around. Dawn was far away.

She carefully sat up so she wouldn’t wake Juhwan, but something touched her leg. She reached down and felt it.

It was a child.

Dorothy, who had clearly fallen asleep in another bed, was now right at her feet.

How does a child who sleeps so deeply even end up here…?

There was no way she rolled all the way over in her sleep. It was strange.

Lizzy lit the lamp, brought a blanket from Dorothy’s bed, and covered her.

When she woke early, she always prepared food.

She got the stew she had asked the inn for the night before, then added vegetables and wine she had bought from the market.

By the time she finished—

Juhwan would always wake up.

“Lizzy.”

“You’re awake?”

She walked to…