The girl lifted the face that had been resting on her hands. A puffy face and reddened eyes welcomed me into the special room that seemed to be her home for the past few days.
She was comfortable, Ray said. But why was it different in front of me?
"Are you crying? What happened?" I asked, leaning closer to her. I wanted to hug her like Ioris was the one in front of me now, but I couldn't.
"Are you really going to send me home?" the girl asked. "Can't you just let me be here? I'm fine if you still want to imprison me. I'm guilty of carelessly sucking the blood of one of the members, but I'd rather you punish me. I better stay here than go back to where I came from."
I had heard a little about her life there. If she was this scared about going back to her home world, it meant that the conditions she was in were no joke.
