HACS 143

After that, all I did was sit blankly next to Eve.

To be honest, if this were Zefflin, I would have been comparing people to my mental encyclopedia—who’s that, where are they from, what do they do—but this is outside Zefflin. In other words, I know very few people here.

If Eve or Regina had chosen dance partners, I might have wondered who they were, but naturally, without Kelter, neither Eve nor Regina seemed to have any intention of dancing.

Ayla also wouldn’t dance since I wasn’t dancing. So literally, the three faces I knew were just acting as screens at this ball.

I get that Ayla and I crashed the party for fun, but if Eve and Regina are going to be like this, why even hold the ball?

When I posed that question to Eve, she let out a deep sigh.

“Wolfram. You do know that Regina and…