That night, I arrived at the tea house at exaclty 1 am SLT. Just at that moment the PaB bell made it reverberating sound. It was somehow touching to hear this clear sign of PaB activity in the otherwise empty and quiet landscape with no avatar in sight.
It stayed quite like that for about 25 minutes. Just when I was getting close to packing up and leaving, I was happily surprised by Hotaru’s appearance. She couldn’t stay long, and neither could I, so we briefly spoke about her RL travel plans as well as her busy SL activities.
