At three o'clock in the morning, Hesta destroyed all the clothes, knives and wigs stained with Roger's blood. She did some simple processing of Roger's car and luggage, and then returned to Tanglar's manor.
She took a shower happily. Rather than being uneasy in the fear of death, it seems more in line with her to make these people live in life-support devices than to die.
Hesta dried her hair and lay down on the bed again. Thinking of every minute and every second of the moment, Roger endured the pain on the sunken dance floor of the Palais de Rohan, and a long-lost peace enveloped her heart.
She closed her eyes and suddenly heard a slight sound of footsteps passing by the door. She sat up with some concern and put on her wig again.
A moment later, when the footsteps passed her door again, Hesta opened the door.
Outside the door, Sophie, who was wearing a nightgown, stopped. She turned around and looked at Hesta's figure in the crack of the door with some surprise.
"...Aren't you asleep yet?" Sophie was startled, and suddenly realized something, "It was the sound of my footsteps that disturbed-"
"It has nothing to do with you. It's not just a matter of one or two days that I can't sleep in the middle of the night." Hesta said softly, "Why are you still up so late?"
Sophie smiled, "...I'll go to the living room to find a book."
Hesta looked at the book in Sophie's arms. It was the Ernest collection she had taken from the living room bookshelf a few days ago.
"I haven't seen you these past few days. Are you really sick?"
Sophie looked away briefly and hesitated to speak. She sighed softly and was silent for a moment before saying: "I heard Officer Si Lei say last night that you met Helen and the others this morning. I am writing a reply to them. You If you can’t sleep either, would you like to come and sit at my place?”
"too late."
"Actually, I have a lot of things to ask you, about..." Sophie's eyes were a little sad, "Sean."
Hesta thought for a moment, then took the recorder and followed Sophie out of her room. However, the moment she stepped into Sophie's bedroom, she immediately regretted it - Alvira was sitting next to Sophie's bed. At the wooden table, wearing a pair of gold glasses, he is
"Please sit down." Sophie pushed Hestad's shoulder from behind. This movement caught Alvira's attention. She raised her head, her always gentle and moist eyes immediately narrowed with a smile when she saw Hestad. It became a seam.
"Isn't Youleka sleeping too?"
Hesta looked at the table lamp in Alvira's hand and answered vaguely, "Yes."
Through this light, Hesta saw Sophie's swollen eyes and the tissues lying on the bed beside the bed. She frowned immediately: "...You're not still crying about Sean, are you?"
"I'm sorry, I know it's a bit weak...but I'm really...sad." Sophie took a deep breath and looked to her side apologetically, "Obviously this period is a special period, but in the end, I always let my aunt Stay with me..."
Alvira reached out and took the back of Sophie's hand. She smiled and said nothing. Gu Huo
"What are you asking me for?" Hesta raised one eyebrow slightly, "To be honest, I'm not very familiar with Sean. I can count on one hand the number of times I've seen him over the years -"
"He said before that he has almost no friends in the base. Is this true? Or is he lying to me?"
Looking at Sophie's eyes that were almost filled with tears, Hesta didn't know how to respond.
"He said that no one has ever really understood him, not even his brother Calvin. His brother always seemed to be immersed in his own world and didn't care much about what was happening in the outside world." Sophie lowered her eyes and said, " Actually, I feel the same way, Calvin always looks gloomy——"
"No, dear," Alvira said from the side, "he is just not good at words."
"But Sean's loneliness is real, right?" Sophie raised her eyes and looked at Hesta, "I have always felt that there are very serious ethical issues within ahgas. Individual mercury needles have no choice at all about whether to fight or not. They can only Obeying orders, and facing pervasive surveillance during this period... these are all true, he didn't lie, right?"
Hesta's mind was running at high speed, "...Are the answers to these questions very important to you?"
"Yes, of course it's important -"
"Why?" Hesta folded his hands behind his head and leaned back slightly, completely leaning on the chair. "As a mercury needle, I really hate this state of being monitored, but you are different. . I think you should be able to understand how much trouble an unregulated mercury needle can cause in a habitable land - why don't you stand on your own side, but on Sean's side?"
Sophie was slightly startled, her brows furrowed slightly, her right hand clenched and placed on her heart.
"I...I don't know, maybe, because the state of loneliness is always the same?"
Hesta pointed her forehead with two fingers, "I don't quite understand."
"When Sean told me about his loneliness, I understood immediately, because I was almost experiencing the same thing," Sophie's tone slowed down slightly, and she looked at the wall not far away. Hanging paintings, his eyes became sad and confused again, "It may not be fair to Helen and the others, but I am now a little tired of our book club, and I feel more and more that those romantic stories are like gentle stories. Mud, they appear in a certain glorious face, consuming the thirst for reality with false adventures.
"Originally, we should strive to seek everything in life - love, career, honor... But now everyone is escaping from fantasy, because the obstacles in reality are discouraging. But even in fantasy, those disgusting parts of the story It is getting closer and closer to reality, because too beautiful descriptions already make people feel hypocritical, and only incomplete stories are credible - but I can't say a word of these words in front of them."
"Why?" Alvira asked.
"Because I... don't want to lose friends!" Sophie clasped her hands, "We are friends who grew up together... Even if I go to the core city to attend preparatory school, I will go back to Tan Yi every summer. We have made an appointment. After we get married, we will attend each other's weddings and be the godmothers of each other's children - they are the people I can't lose no matter what.
"When I told Sean these things, he quickly understood what I was talking about." Sophie looked at Hesta, "I know that he went a little too far with Mr. Bergman. But I think his nature is not bad. A person with such a sensitive heart like him cannot really do evil. He just felt hurt, so he chose to fight back——"
Hesta leaned back in her chair without saying a word.
This was really a wonderful experience. In the first half of the night, she was dealing with Roger under the gloomy dome of the Palais de Rohan, and in the second half of the night, she sat in this cozy bedroom, listening to Sophie talk about her daughter's worries.
Life... is really unpredictable.
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