Since the season turned, I pass beneath the scriptorium stairs every night. It's not on the way, and yet my feet turn that way every time.

• ChisatoLast night you stood at the bottom of the stairs for the longest time. I saw the whole thing.
  AritokiIf you saw it, that's as far as it goes. Don't go carrying it around.
• HazukiThe prize for winning twelve nights turns out to be lingering on someone else's staircase. The court would weep if it knew.
• MorichikaIf you bring even those footsteps with you to the thirteenth night, that'll be trouble for me.
  AritokiThere's only one thing I'll be carrying with me that night.