“Lisa, do you have a moment?” Looking up from her notebook, Yukina looked at Lisa with a pleading expression on her face. Well, to anyone else, it would look like Yukina’s normally-placid face, but Lisa had become an expert at reading Yukina’s mood from the set of her eyebrows. It was the little things that counted, of course.Feeling like a puppy whose master had just called her name, Lisa trotted over to Yukina’s desk. They still had a few minutes before homeroom started, and Lisa was

The bumps in the dirt road were transmitted directly into Fiona's prone body as she lay on her side in the cart. With her hands and feet bound, she could only lie there, unable to even look at the scenery as the horses pulled the cart up the winding mountain road. It was only yesterday that Fiona celebrated her eighteenth birthday. Everyone in the village gave her a present, happy smiles on their lined and weather-beaten faces. It was a rare moment of joy, as the recent poor harvests and dusty,