Volume V - Chapter 33: Visitor Abundant Boulder

"Celine...?"

"Adrian?"

We both paused for a moment as we spoke at the same time. Celine, first thinking that there might be someone else in the area, quickly pulled her hair up and put her hood back over her head. She looked around briefly. Then, with a sigh, she turned her eyes back upward, toward me.

"You're here to relax a bit, I suppose?"

"Ah, yeah... There's been a lot going on lately. Even though it's a bit hard to lie down, it's also relaxing to watch the sky or the sunset."

Her eyes, half-hidden just under her hoodie, focused for a moment on my face, or rather on the sides of my face. It was as if... she was looking at my ears.

I sighed and pointed with my hand to the tip of my right ear.

"That's also one of the things that happened lately, of course."

"I see..."