Emilia almost smiled. Almost.
The chat in her moderator overlay was still scrolling at a speed that made reading impossible. She caught fragments as they flew past.
Theories. Arguments. Clips of the kiss being analyzed frame by frame. Someone had isolated the moment Vespera's expression shifted after touching Kaiden's face, the instant before she stood and turned on the siblings, and was running it in slow motion with annotations. The post had eight thousand comments.
A new thread was climbing the trending tab. The title was just three words: "Vespera is gorgeous."
Emilia blinked.
