After dinner, Alex went to the back garden for a walk to help digestion, together with Anika, Pearl, Wenammy, Suijin, and Okami, leaving the Nobles and the King free to drink their wine in the dining room or walk along the several corridors of the Castle.
Alex stopped at the gazebo, and a maid that was following them rushed to ask him if he wanted some tea for him and his friends. While the maid went inside the Castle again, Alex sat on the lower wall of the gazebo, feeling the night breeze and looking at the double moon in the sky. Pearl noticed that while the others were happily chatting, he was in silence, thinking with a serious face.
She approached him and touched his right hand. “What’s the matter? You are awfully quiet. Are you worried about something?”
“I was just thinking about
