Expelling the Darkness (End)
'Then, that is enough.'
My mind keeps repeating what Valeria said just a few moments ago. I look down at the woman sitting on my lap and find her calmly eating her food. I jokingly asked her to sit on my lap and she did it without hesitation. Valeria used to be reluctant to display her affection publicly, but she has come around. Maybe, though, it is because we don't have many people in the dining room.
Winerva sits across from us, eating her food silently while sneaking glances a few times. She seems to be quite baffled by Valeria's boldness. She has seen too much of Valeria's reserved side, so it must be quite hard to wrap her head around the fact that Valeria can also act like a clingy girlfriend. She has seen us together a couple of times, but not to this point.
'Now that I think about it, we bathed together a couple of times before. Compared to that, it should be nothing, no?'