“Just my mom! It’d be nice to have someone else, but for now I’m happy being single.” Delilah says with a pleasant smile.
Emearld asks Delilah about the war and Hope’s family’s weapon manufacturing and what she thinks of it.
Delilah thinks on it a second and says, “Well… It’s not my place to say anything about the Master’s business. I just help keep his house and home, or to be more precise I keep Hope’s. War is a terrible but necessary thing, and though his weapons have hurt many people I’m sure that they’ve also saved quite a few as well. I know for instance that the Whiterwater Guards sometimes carry weapons the Master’s company has made.”
The cake is finished at this point, and Delilah let’s Emerald pour the cake into two pans, and even gives him the spoon and bowl to lick clean. At this point she shoos Emerald away so she can finish dinner, even though he once again offered to help her. He occupies his time by grabbing the rest of his stuff that he left last night from Hope’s room, and is about to crack open the book on focuses when Delilah calls him back to help finish the cake by spreading jam in the middle. He attempts to frost the outside, but can’t get the frosting smooth, and let’s Delilah do it.
The two of them then sit and wait for Hope to return home. The hours stretch on however, and she still hasn’t came back. Delilah goes to the window and says, “Oh dear, I wonder what is keeping Mistress.”
Then seeing the look on Emerald’s face she says, “She probably just had some extra work she needed to finish. Don’t worry, Sapphire.”
Emerald presses his face onto the window facing outside towards the street. It’s evening, and the lamp lights reveal a barren street, with no sign of Hope.
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