The red-haired knight hadn't meant to burst in while Felix was speaking to the apprentices, and she quickly went to the bookshelves after uttering a quick apology.
However, she couldn't help herself as she lingered with her hands on a book, but her eyes on the apprentices. Knighthoods' schedules were cyclical, even if it took a few years. It also meant that things had finally healed enough after the Monster War to return to how they were when she was an apprentice.
While the tables were different because the goblins who had been stuck in the library destroyed many things, they were still set up the same as before. Those were her first memories of Felix and Leif. How far they had come, how much they had lost.
She wasn't aware that her nostalgic, warm smile had turned to a frown, and a small line appeared between her eyebrows. Only when she was interrupted did she realize she had been staring into nothingness.
