🍁Nine Ancient Obelisks

Asmidul entered, while the guard remained outside the door. The woman herself stared at the guest with a puzzled expression.

The young man seemed a little flustered by the woman's gaze. Under normal circumstances, this meeting wouldn't have been necessary, in either a good or bad sense. But there was nothing to be done; he realized that there was significantly less time to solve the curse than he had optimistically assumed.
—Praise Anuzish, are you alright? I hope you remember yesterday evening? —the scholar clarified quietly, just in case.