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In the following days, when I go out to take a shower, I notice that the guards at the doors of our room are different. I don't know why I notice that. I don't usually notice, but for some reason I notice that they are not the same young wolves as always, but others, older, with beards and angry expressions beneath their dark wooden masks.

That's the first sign.

The second is the smell and the heat, and it takes me a while to recognize both.

The Tarus fortress is not very cold, or I adapted quickly to its temperature. However, on those days it suddenly feels almost scalding hot.

The dress sticks to my skin because of the sweat. The smell in the air is sweet and citrusy, and when I remember where I know him I feel a chill: it's the smell of that aphrodisiac flower that is in the dassbat. Why is your smell everywhere?

- What's? — Arina asks, perhaps noticing my troubled expression.

I start to question her about smelling the smell and the heat when the Iberiis order us to go back into th