Alexandra logged in shortly after sunrise and opened her friends list before the Light Tree's glow had fully faded from her vision. Every familiar name was gray, but she found Martin's first.
Of course I checked his name first.
He was probably already at work. Katherine and Elisebeth had schedules of their own, while Cassandra rarely had a morning she could truly call free. Forest Hidden had not fully woken either. Only a few players wandered beneath the Light Tree, and most looked as though they had logged in before remembering to wake themselves up.
Alexandra stopped beside the bench where her party usually met and searched the canopy above.
She could not pick out the branch where she and Martin had ended their date, but her eyes kept trying. Somewhere up there, he had listened when she stopped joking, admitted that he wanted to try the future they had discussed, and asked her on another date himself.
