The next morning, Julius found himself thinking about what he had witnessed the previous night.
He had already noticed that Ian was becoming attached to Destiny without even realizing what those feelings truly meant, and perhaps his inability to understand them was part of the reason he had drunk so much.
He had consumed far more rice wine than usual, almost to the point of passing out, until Destiny eventually dragged him back to the bed.
None of that was particularly surprising, but what Destiny had said afterward, and the affection she had shown toward the sleeping Ian, had been something Julius genuinely hadn't expected.
In fact, it had surprised him even more than the conversation they had shared a few days earlier about the universe.
That conversation had certainly been difficult for him to accept at first, but eventually he had managed to make some sense of it.
