478 Chapter 478 An Invitation And A Surprise
Silvia wasn’t a person who would usually show much emotion, but interacting with Desmond was an excellent way to push her over the edge and force her to be more emotional. Now, with a helpless and almost pleading expression, Silvia begged.
“Please tell you’re not planning to make a ss?”
Only then did Desmond realize that he had been too careless to make his intentions so clear. Looking at Siliva, who was on the verge of tears and already playing out who knows how many ghoulish scenarios in her head, Desmond had no choice but to assure Silvia that he would do nothing for the ti being.
“Don’t worry, Silvia, it’s not who is planning sothing. Just don’t be surprised when a certain idiot tries sothing, and I respond with all my energy.”
Silvia was not an expert on human nature and the subtleties of social interactions; however, she was pretty sure Desmond was lousy at comforting other people. It didn’t matter which way Silvia saw it; between planning to attack soone and planning how to fight back, there wasn’t much difference in the outco; in the end, a lot of blood would be split over the floor.
“Try not to think about it too much. Until now, I’m just guessing things, it could be that nothing happens in the end, and then you will have worried about nothing.” Desmond added.
Silvia hardly seed better than before, but at least she was grateful that Desmond tried to comfort her. “I guess you’re right. I’ll worry when trouble cos to us.”
Desmond noted, of course, that Silvia seed entirely sure that trouble would co eventually, but he didn’t bother to correct her because he felt the sa way.
As the two of them walked down the corridors, the starry sky and the bright moon overhead occasionally beca visible whenever they passed a window. The eting had taken much longer than Desmond had planned, so much so that lunchti was long past.
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It was unnecessary to add one plus one to know it would be the sa for Silvia. Thinking about it, Desmond had a good idea. Since the tension between him and Silvia had improved a lot recently, and as her right-hand man in the army, she was going to be more and more involved in his activities. Desmond thought it would be good for Silvia to get to know the Astryd family better.
“Hey, Silvia, how about you co to my house for dinner tonight? I’m sure Claire and Sasha will be happy to see you. Of course, you can bring your sister Samantha.”
The invitation took Silvia by surprise, who instinctively beca defensive for a mont, but hearing Claire and Sasha’s nas, Silvia relaxed. Silvia believed that even Desmond wouldn’t be brazen enough to make inappropriate advances in front of Claire and Sasha.
In the case of Samantha, Silvia had no problem. Her sister had recovered at a fantastic rate with the support of the dicines and potions provided by Desmond; at this point, Samantha could already walk small sections on her own.
After thinking about it for a couple of seconds, Silvia accepted the invitation, agreeing to et in an hour, which would give her ti to pick up her sister. Silvia and Desmond separated without further ado, heading to their respective hos.
For Desmond, it was pretty simple. With the support of Estella, there was no longer a single task to do at ho, so he just had to get ho and relax in the company of Claire. With Cecilia in the garden reading avidly and Sasha in the lab working on who knows what, Desmond spent his ti enjoying a little privacy with Claire in the living room. Apart from a small mont of awkwardness that occurred while Cecilia went back inside to get another book, there was nothing more to add.
On Silvia’s side, with her house being further away and having other things to fix, things were not so easy. In the first place, she had just arrived at her ho; Silvia was greeted by a living room full of dical equipnt that she no longer needed. She had not yet had ti to get rid of it.
Walking a little further, voices and cartoon sound soon reached her ears, bringing Silvia a smile. It had been almost five years since Samantha fell into a coma; during that ti, only her body kept developing, but her mind didn’t keep up. Today, Samantha still had the sa interests as she did five years ago.
Fortunately, Samantha was always a sensible and mature child, so it wasn’t challenging to take care of her even if her mind hadn’t developed as much as it should have. In a certain way, the sisters had many similarities, both physical and ntal, since both have similar personalities, except that Samantha wasn’t completely apathetic toward romance like her sister was.
Whatever the case, both sisters loved each other very much. In both minds, the other was the most important thing in the world. Silvia had made Samantha her only priority and motivation for years. At the sa ti, Samantha was smart enough to understand the kind of sacrifices her sister had to make to take care of her.
As the days passed, and Samantha understood more and more of this new world that she had woken up in, at the sa ti, it beca more and more apparent to her how difficult it had been for her sister to take care of her.
In fact, there was a pretty big argunt when Silvia told her sister that she was a soldier now, sothing that Samantha couldn’t understand at the ti. But none of that mattered now; both sisters lived in harmony.
As Silvia expected, as soon as she entered her sister’s room, she found Samantha watching so cartoons. Silvia ignored, by default, the content on television. With so exceptions, there had been no new productions of entertainnt content for years; she was tired of seeing the sa things repeated on television over ti.
Samantha hadn’t gone through five years’ worth of content, so she didn’t suffer from the sa as Silvia. However, as soon as Silvia entered the room, Samantha lost all interest in television.
As it had beco a custom for the pair of sisters, the first and most important thing they did when they saw each other was to share a warm hug. Only people like them would know how much it ant to have each other, a privilege many in the current era would yearn for.
Once the hug ended, Silvia told her sister about the dinner invitation they had received from Desmond, sothing that moved Samantha very much. Claire’s natural charm had quickly won the heart of young Samantha, who now saw her as a great friend, sothing Silvia approved of.
What didn’t make Silvia the least bit happy; was all the interest Samantha showed towards Desmond. It couldn’t be helped; despite her emotional maturity, Samantha’s fourteen-year-old body was full of hormones, and it was normal for her to show interest in the opposite sex.
The only saving grace for Silvia was that Samantha just found Desmond interesting the way an astrologer would find supernovae interesting; she didn’t seem infatuated or anything.
Perhaps, for a brief mont, there might have been a spark of sothing else in young Samantha’s people, but that died as soon as she found out about Desmond’s love life. She wasn’t at all interested in sothing like polygamy, and that was another thing the sisters had in common.
Whatever the case, the sisters were ready to visit Desmond’s house in just half an hour, during which Silvia changed out of her uniform and dressed in sothing more casual.
It took so ti as Samantha still couldn’t walk at a fast pace, but both sisters eventually reached the Astryd residence. Seeing the height of the concrete fence that surrounded the house on the top of the hill, as well as the roof in the distance, Silvia realized that although she had seen the outside many tis, she had never entered it.
Out of courtesy, Silvia knocked on the entrance, hoping soone would co to open the door, and soone or sothing did.
Her tiny body was no more than five feet tall. From the waist down, the only thing visible was a long black skirt and a pair of needle-like black legs; from the core up, her body seed to be made of porcelain or white jade. The overall appearance was humanoid, but no matter which way soone looked at it, with a body that appeared to be made of mineral materials, the creature was not human.
The song of an oriole ca from Estella’s tiny mouth, trying to attract the guests’ attention, who now seed completely dumbfounded. Feeling the innocent and harmless emotions that shimred in the eralds Estella had for eyes, Silvia and Samantha stood there, not knowing how to react.
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