>The evening is slowly entering into the later stages of nightfall.
>Shiori is sitting in her room, Salt nestled up on her lap, Pepper sleeping on the carpet.
>"Hmm, maybe a few more attempts."
>She retrieves a piece of paper and begins to read from it. Line by line.
>She then shakes her head: "Nope, that wasn't good enough, one more take."
>Hours pass by, one more time, this time for sure, maybe this one will be the last, ok last one!
>Many variations of the same excuse
>Finally, an end in sight has come by
>"Oh, this one was pretty good!"
>She glances at the time and a slow panic dawns on her.
>"Oh good golly, it's already 3am?!"
>She gently lifts Salt up, who had been in a comfortable sleep the entire time.
>She then drags herself to her bed, laying down in it, with her phone next to her.
>Before finally drifting to sleep, she wonders to herself: "I hope the Novelites will enjoy this month's audio..."
>The thought stays with her another hour as she tries to drift to sleep, but fails to do so.
>Many thoughts continue to swirl in her head, consisting of things such as "I hope they'll like it." "Maybe I could do better?" "Gosh I wonder what their reactions will be like?" and so on.
