Binding Vow

[Later That Day]

"Huu…" 

Releasing visible breaths from his pursed lips as he sighed, Rey dropped the book he just finished reading on his desk as he rose from the chair where he sat.

'It's been months since I last read, but it takes me a few minutes to finish a whole book now. And that's even when I'm being slow.' He proceeded to his bed and collapsed on it, covering his face with his hand.

'How am I supposed to read with Alicia if I'm just faster than her by such a degree?' 

Rey knew his worries were misplaced. Rather than agonizing about these thoughts, he ought to think about ways to lift her curse first.

'Curse, huh? Who would have thought it would become such a troublesome thing…' Closing his eyes, he remembered what Brutus told him and his classmates earlier that day.

—The brutal consequence for breaking the Binding Vow.

'A curse befalling all of the Alliance… Is something of that scale even possible by humans?'