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"Please,briefly from his couch Aldrec sat down in the sofa beside Mericlou, flashing a smile to her just to see her blush all theat Aldrec "At last, Meri's mysterious elf friend aze, effectively silencing her

Sedriil, meanwhile, introduced Aldrec to Noroa and Garen "He's a friend of Meri's and has been a steady client for the past year," He said "We finally got the chance to ave us sorocery store"

"An elf client?" Noroa said, et many elves here" "So I've been told," Aldrec said "I wasn't interrupting anything important, was I, Skori?"

"Not at all," Skori replied, noticing the look of disappointht leave "I simply didn't expect that our other sister, or even you, for that "

"Is that the reason you have that?" Sedriil said quietly froe Aldrec held in his lap, along with the large bouquet ofhis hand over his package's iridescent wrapping "I was on my way here when I met you It's a present, actually, for Meri"

"You knew?" Mericlou said, whipping her head towards Aldrec, whom she previously tried to avoid eye contact with "How …? Iwith a s the e and bouquet "They're not much, but I hope you like them"

Mericlou stroked the roses' petals daintily, and briefly inhaled their aroift different froiven her in the past was that these roses ca froolden yellow and an especially gorgeous,the roses to the side, she accepted the package, and began to tear through the wrapping When she opened it, she let out a sh

"Oh, Aldrec … thank you!" She said, ree leather-bound book