<br/>Roughly half an hour had passed, and finally Aimée led her friend from the room and downstairs.<br/><br/><br/><sup>"Aimée...I didn't even hear ye come in..."</sup>A female voice came up the stairs, followed by some muted conversation.<br/><br/><br/>It was a good fifteen minutes before the redhead wound her way up the steps and back to her room alone, flopping down on her bed.<br/>