Chapter 778: The Participants

"Princes… Esme?"

And once again, Hannah points her head down in shame as she once again pulled the hood of a stranger open. She had met Esme before, of course, but really only from afar. She might as well be one of the people from the group without a table.

"S… sorry, I got the wrong person again… fuck," Hannah's voice practically turned into a whisper as she reached her last word. She was about to head back to her seat again, but instead turned to look at Esme,

"Are you… okay now?"

Esme was the only survivor from New Theran, and the fact that she survived was a testament to how strong she really was. But throughout the moments that Hannah saw her the past five years, she had always been either asleep or too weak to even talk or walk—Hannah sees her as… fragile.

A symbol of what Riley did.