609 The Day Before The Mission - Part 3

For their part, Verdant and Oliver were more relaxed. Something about the daylight invited such relaxed states. Both he and Asabel had their afternoons free. It wasn't a surprising fact for Oliver to have his afternoon free, given how much 'free' time he had lately – that was, time away from lessons, since he had markedly few of those. But for Asabel, ever since her Quarter inheritance, her schedule had been as packed as one would expect.

Tomorrow morning, Oliver would be setting out on whatever mission Skullic had set him, meaning he'd be meeting with the man himself, so that he could give him the task. That meant he needed to finally address the task that he'd been putting off for the rest of the week and get his meeting with Asabel out of the way. Skullic would probably reprimand him for leaving it so long, but none could say that he hadn't attended to it.