Chapter 129: My first clothing store experience is...not in a clothing store
"Vaaaal!"
It had become a habit now that Zia would greet me with a tackle hug regardless of who was there with me. An easy feat since she had those two wings to launch herself at me. And then Jade would join us in a three-way hug. Fun stuff.
"See...you never visit me..." the first thing Zia said after that greeting was complaining about my lack of presence in the Tower, which...well, yes, it was my fault. I had promised her that I would go at least once a week, but I hadn’t been there ever since I moved here.
"I’m sorry..." I bit my lips, truly feeling guilty now that she was looking up with a pout. "I didn’t think I’d be busy here..."
Which was true. I had thought all I’d be doing here was reading books and having lessons with Eruha, resulting in a lot of free time during the day. But between training with Alveitya and the soldiers, as well as trying to work out a failed invention, not to mention Eruha’s more-than-eager teaching...
Well, I suddenly found my days usually full. Which wasn’t a bad thing, because I felt productive. But it made me neglect the plan of going back and forth to the Lair.
"Ugh--fine! Tell me what you’ve been up to then," Zia huffed and crossed her arms in a show of magnanimity.
With a laugh, I told her what I had been doing this past week, including the whole shenanigans in the training ground and the elf--minus about him being someone from another world. It was fine, since it was just us and the two guards, who already knew about everything anyway.
"What...you’re actually got angry?" Zia gasped, uttering it in a whisper as if we were talking about something scandalous. "And you ignored him?"
"Well...more like I just go straight inside so I didn’t have to talk to him, but...yeah."
Zia looked at me in silence for a while, before raising her thumbs. "Good job, Val. That’s what you should do. You don’t have to accept everything Lord Cousin does to you."