Back when she studied at Elizabeth Academy of Magic, Lyra had read many extracurricular books, including some historical records, and learned about several major plagues once referred to by the Valeria Empire as the Dark Ages.
Wearing bird-beaked masks, placing blended herbs in nasal filters, changing clothes daily and soaking and washing them with hot water, these hygiene-based epidemic prevention measures could indeed hinder the spread of plague to a certain extent.
Astrid wasn't wrong.
Staring at the woman's legs, no longer wrapped in silk, appearing now even paler and more delicate under the carriage lights, Lyra fluttered her eyelashes and froze in place.
