Finland fell silent. She remembered that last year when she first met Lauriel, the man showed her a bottle he called Death and said that he was tired of life.
"Uhm... when we first met, you said that you wanted to die. Did the bottle contain poison?" she asked slowly.
Aleksis, who sat next to Finland and was playing with a bell, suddenly became quiet and looked at Lauriel, her round eyes full of question marks. The man, who realized that Aleksis looked at him attentively, smiled and shook his head.
He rubbed her hair gently before answering, as if he didn't want Aleksis to hear that he once wanted to die, "It's not poison, but medicine."
"What medicine?" Finland asked, not understanding.