What did she expect was going to happen next? Lozka was right next to them, and he was too nervous to glance over and check if she was asleep yet.“I...saw how everted you were in the hot spring,” Mizi added, her hand sneaking up to caress his cheek. She seemed to savor being able to touch him so unreservedly, as though she too had been holding back her feelings. “You don’t have to keep this up,” she murmured, those violet eyes enrapturing him as he looked down at her. “There’s nothing unusual. "Um... Am I interrupting?" Toby said."No," I said. "Toby. This is Patty, a friend of mine." We've met," Patty said, but blinked her eyes demurely in a move that could only have been copied from an expression that I had seen Kristen do frequently."Yeah. We have math together," Toby said. He turned to me, "I want to thank you for what you did in music today?" Huh?" I asked.Toby's face was serious. "Taking second trombone instead of first trumpet. I would have been kicked down to second trumpet if. "Flatterer," she said, "I can see that we will get on very well. I am the Princess Ayda, Alima's mother, as I am sure you are well aware. You must be Robinson, the Master's new butler." I have that honour, ma'am," said Robinson as a younger version of Ayda bustled into the room, similarly dressed."You are the Emir's new butler? I am My Highness the Princess Alima. You are to serve us, as well as the Emir?" Of course, Princess."Robinson used the honorific but without a trace of a bow, as only. As she was leaving the elevator, there was a moment where I looked at her and she looked at me and there was some kind of connection already.Gradually time passed and I forgot about her. The building I stay in has 35 floors and I live on the 14th floor. One fine day, I was waiting for the elevator at my floor, the elevator opens and I see her and luckily the elevator was going down. I looked at her and we exchanged smiles. As there was no one else in the elevator, there was an awkward silence.