It had been a while now since Kaori had explained everything to Ash.
Whereas before, Ash had done everything in her power to ignore Kaori, now, it felt like she couldn't take her eyes away for a second, otherwise, she'd fade away into nothing.
"And, yeah," Kaori explained. "He said that all I could do was wait until this thing gets resolved."
"... One month," Ash said in a low voice. "That's how long Lumina said I had before we do the whole trial stuff."
"Heh," Kaori chuckled a little next to her, "I guess waiting one more month isn't so bad." Then, she looked down, and her smile turned slightly sadder. "I was scared I'd never come back. I really thought I had died, when I woke up in that place. That the last thing you'd see of me was me being an absolute failure."
