Once again, time could have stood still for both of them; Kalina and Valian wouldn't have cared in the slightest. They spent almost two days in the royal rooms until the Emperor had to return to his duties at the palace without further delay.
Thinking on the unforgettable sensations she felt simply from being in Valian's warm embrace, Kalina finished drying her skin with a white towel. Valian… How much he meant to her! How immense were their feelings. Their bond was so powerful and so vast. It couldn't be measured by all the water in the oceans, nor by the infinite sky. For him alone, she was willing to abandon a mission she had been given. Something that, until then, along with Syria and the others, had been the most solemn and respected matter in her life. That principle of righteousness, the line she had drawn and upheld every day after losing Kaius. She was about to shatter that line, just for him.
