[Music recommendation: RIOPY - Ukiyo]
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Three days had passed since Gavriel and Hera's first encounter.
In all those days, despite throwing himself into investigating the strange beast breaches, he had not been able to erase her from his thoughts.
Every evening, the moment he was able to steal some time for himself, he found his footsteps carrying him back to that same blooming rose tree in the quiet forest.
Yet, she was never there.
Her absence only deepened his curiosity.
Who was she, and where had she come from?
He didn't even know her family name, which would have made it easier to find her without alerting the entire kingdom to the fact that the Crown Prince was searching for a woman.
As he stood beside the stream, his thoughts took a more troubling turn.
What if that high-tier beast had harmed her? Was that why she had stopped coming here?
