Dahlia stretched a bit, having a hard time fully waking up.
"Did I sleep long?" she asked.
"Over a couple of hours," said Victoria. "Thankfully! You needed that."
"Did you have bad dreams?" Helen signed, visibly worried. "You cried for a bit."
"Oh, I..."
For some reason, Dahlia felt reluctant to tell her friends about having finally seen Hades. Not so much because she thought it was something that might endanger or alarm them, but because this had been such an intimate, personal meeting, she wanted to keep it to herself. She smiled and shook her head.
"Sorry, I don't remember well," she lied.
She felt a bit bad lying to her friend, but somehow, she saw in Helen's eyes that her friend was understanding of her white lie. Helen briefly held her hand, and turned to the others. Vi
