The Gem Cat entered the Sakura Pub with a furrowed brow, weighed down by thoughts of connections among the black-robed, the eclipse, and Korma, yet no matter how hard it tried, it couldn't find any links among these terms.
It looked up and saw the pub owner.
It hesitated for a moment.
For today, Korma appeared quite different from usual. Although she was still sitting behind the bar, she wasn't surrounded by opened rum bottles nor playing with tarot cards; she was reading a book!
Indeed, as far as it remembered, Zheng Qian had never seen Korma reading a book before.
A few stars chased each other beneath the ceiling, casting a silver-white starlight throughout the room that made the witch's silver hair shine even more dazzlingly. She pursed her lips, held a feather pen in her hand, and seriously marked and drew on that book.
"Sit."
The witch ordered concisely without lifting her head.
