I didn't even know how long we stood there staring at each other.
Time felt warped — stretching and collapsing all at once — because neither of us could speak.
Both of us were too stunned.
I had to think.
If I didn't come up with something normal to say in the next few seconds, I had no idea what impulsive reaction she might have.
Leona.
The academy's cross-dressing heroine — and originally, a character meant to become the protagonist's roommate.
She always kept her hair tied, carefully maintaining it even though it was far too long for any boy. She made desperate efforts to dress like a man despite her soft, unmistakably feminine features.
Of course, those efforts were pointless, but since she insisted she was a boy, no one questioned it — at least early in the academy storyline.
But anyone who saw her like this, right after she'd finished bathing, would never mistake her for a man.
