Don Quixote's Delusions (11)

—Affiliated with Slayers. Garurik and Union. We have just returned safely from the cultist branch.

What happened afterward was obvious.

The children welcomed our return in their own ways.

Everyone looked utterly haggard, as though they'd gone two full nights without sleep.

“Vic, Thor···.”

The gauntness around their eyes.

Yet even that melted away in an instant.

Anxiety melted into relief, and the watery world streamed down their cheeks.

Plop-.

The first to approach was, unsurprisingly, Carmilla...