Path Of War

Upon entering the apartment, she spotted Jada on the couch, reading over one of Alice's well-thumbed medical books. Jada glanced up and greeted her.

"Good to see you, too, Jada."

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The now-Uchiha closed and lifted the cover to Alice's face, saying, "You really are incredible, Alice! You can actually read all of this and never seem tired!"

Curious, Alice raised an eyebrow and asked, "What's so surprising about that?"

Jada rubbed the back of her neck and softly chuckled, "I can barely understand half the words!"

Alice smiled warmly at the compliment.

"By the way!" Jada quipped, "I had a plate of your breakfast, and it tasted so good!"

"Haha. Thank you. I think Will had two plates of it."

It then dawned on Jada that if William had two plates, then that meant Alice didn't have any since the portion was only enough for four people.

"Did you at least eat lunch?" she wondered.

Alice shook her head, answering, "No time. Just running errands before some more duties at the academy."