Chapter 60

• After dinner, I went back to my room after forcefully re-stating my request for Lucy to continue writing her diary entries. I sat on my bed with my legs crossed and laid out the eight bags I had purchased that afternoon. After meticulously sewing the carefully folded talismans into the bags’ seams, an hour had already passed.
• “I can’t believe this took so long,” I said out loud to myself.
• I wiped my brow with my sleeves, stretched out my sore back and stood up. But at that moment, my cellphone rang to let me know a message had arrived. I went to check the message.