The Empress and I stayed there for quite a while, reminiscing stories from the past. She told that she had always wanted to have a daughter, but because of the Herman bloodline that allowed the won of the family to only bear a male child, she could only hope for it. That is why my mother brings to the palace so that the empress could wipe away her longing.
From her words alone, I could feel that the Empress and my mother had a very good relationship. Our talk had only made miss her more…
Ezekiel then ca and interrupted our pleasant conversation, joining us. Unfortunately, the Empress had to go because of an appointnt with the royal physician.
"I will wait for the next ti that you'll visit," Auntie said and then set off with her maids-in-waiting.
Now, only Ezekiel, Eon, Nathan, and I are left in the garden.
"Do you want to tour you around?" Ezekiel asked.
.
I smiled at him, "Can we? It seems that I have been a frequent visitor here before, but I can't rember," I uttered and surveyed my eyes around the place.
That feeling of slight nostalgia was still there. I have not felt this when I was in the main hall, then that ans, the garden is where we only used to stay and nowhere else.
I felt Nathan's eyes on , "You still had not recovered your mory? I thought you did, and that's the reason for your current changes..." he remarked.
My head turned to look at him in an abrupt fashion that almost gave whiplash.
"I had amne-- I an, you knew?" I blurted out of surprise from his words.
It was only my excuse for my maids to hide the fact that I am not their real master. How did Nathan know of my crappy reason?
'Did the novel Nadia had amnesia before too? But that was never discussed in the story! I really am sure that nothing like that was ntioned.'
Nathan frowned upon seeing my expression.
"When you woke up from the accident, you were screaming and asking who we are. You don't rember most of the things either, even your own na," was his answer.
"Really?" I muttered and looked down to the ground.
'So… she lost her mories?'
'Huh? That's kind of… weird, isn't it? Wait, actually no. It is possible. She had an accident, after all! Is that also part of the reason why she is… ugh! I don't know! This is confusing !'
"You still have not?" Nathan asked again when he noticed that I got silent.
"Co on guys! Let us not talk about depressing things shall we?" Eon suddenly jumped in to cut off our conversation-- "Nads, do you want to take you around?" he offered.
Nathaniel's cold glare focused on him, "Go back to the castle grounds."
"But I want to tag along!" Eon whined and pouted at him.
"It's an order," Nathan added in a firm voice.
"The heck… abuse of power…" Eon grumbled under his breath as he gave Nathan glares, which isn't discreet in my eyes anyway.
"Now, let us not go into argunts. Co and I will show you around," Ezekiel butted in.
I was still thinking about what Nathan had just told but...
'Oh, what the hell. I can think about all of this later when I am alone... '
"Okay," I mumbled and stood up from my chair.
Nathan and Eon stopped their bickering as well and went with us. The four of us walked around at first before Eon was sent away by Nathan after we had reached the castle grounds where so knights were having so kind of a mini-battle. I saw Conrad and Luther there as well who waved at us for a mont before they went back to whatever they were doing.
"Captain, is that your sister?" one knight suddenly asked and ran towards our direction.
He was young, probably around my age. It's probably impossible that he would be in the ranks of the knights so a newbie, perhaps? A trainee?
"Who? Oh! The King of The Hunt!" another one exclaid and stopped doing his training routines to follow the first guy.
"I was far away from the podium so I had not seen her up-close. Let see her too!"
"King of The Hunt!"
Soon, a small group of them approached us to get a 'proper' look at , as they said. It seems that I have apparently beco a celebrity. I'm kind of used to this kind of thing because it is the sa for in the academy.
"Go back to your training," Nathan ordered and stared them down one by one, pinning them with his infamous glares.
He had looked so scary just from the dark aura he was imposing so all of them heeded his commands.
"They are nosy," he then clicks his tongue after they are all gone.
Eon nudged in the shoulders, "Nadia, those days when you were in a coma, Nathan had been traumatizing the newbies. He had sparred with them tirelessly that so even quit!" he whispered to my ear.
It was heard by Nathaniel though.
"You too. Get lost," he declared.
"Tch," Eon grumbled again and reluctantly left our side to join the others.
'Brother, you are being too harsh on Eon…' I wanted to tell him that but chose not.
We then moved on to the outer palace and Ezekiel pointed to where the Empress was staying and said that we can't go in there without her majesty's permission, so we did not explore that one. Instead, we ca to the southernmost part of the castle where a tall tower was erected.
"That is the Tower of Magic or The Archives," Ezekiel divulged. "Do you want to co in? Though we can only enter the lower floors because the tower owner prohibited the access of the upper ones," he added.
'The Magic Tower!'
I stared at the looming tower from a distance. It was absolutely breathtaking and very impressive to look at. But to , at that mont, I saw it as sothing so sinister-looking.
'Why did I forget that visiting the palace ans seeing this tall building as well?'
A grimace appeared on my lips, "Err, maybe so other ti…" I mumbled-- "I actually kind of feel a little dizzy…" I added and coupled it with a fake act of massaging my temples.
'And I ant dizzy from fright, yes.'
Nathan suddenly acted and looked at , grabbing both of my shoulders.
"Are you okay?" he asked, appearing so worried all of a sudden.
'Oh boy… This is a bad idea when you have soone who is overprotective.'
"Yes I am, maybe it's because of the sun," I tried to reassure him but ended up blanching inside.
'Lies. It is almost winter, the weather is not that hot either! That was so la of .'
But they accepted it though...
"Then let us go back so you can rest," Ezekiel uttered.
I glanced at the tall tower one last ti before we finally left the place.
At the topmost floor of the tower, a man in robes stood in front of the window, gazing outside. His golden irises were particularly focused on one figure being accompanied by two people, lingering even after they all disappeared out of sight. His eyes flashed for a mont before a cryptic smile appeared on his lips.
"Hmm…"
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