That strange feeling confused him a little. Fortunately, it didn't last, and Bai Ye was so enraptured by their mutual practices that he soon forgot all about it.
Only occasionally, when he found himself staring into her eyes in the same position across the swords, he would remember for a moment that image of her framed in the pink blossoms. And on those occasions, the strange feeling would return, along with stranger thoughts that never crossed his mind before: maybe he was lucky after all that she had awakened from Twin Stars; even luckier that sword spirits lived as long as immortals; and … why did he feel as if he had become addicted to these sparring sessions?
In fact, he was getting so used to spending the morning with her like this that he'd grow anxious when she didn't show up. And that was how he felt on the day when she missed her lesson for the first time in months.