"I-Er-" Alexis looked at the expectant stare on Joshuas face and then the smirk on the scumbags face.
'He is totally attractive... the hottest guy I've ever seen. I mean that face... and then that bod.' She couldn't compare him to any actor or a man she's actually seen because it wouldn't do him any justice.
Saying Alastair wasn't attractive to straight women would be like saying the sky is bright pink. His red eyes that glowed and the beautiful hair that reflected light in such perfect balance. His jawline and nose were to swoon for. Alastair was not a perfect being, he was beyond perfect.
Angela and Rosy stood up, grabbing a coat, scarf and hat. Andrea, on the other hand, grabbed a pair of shoes."I'm only going to the garden..." Alexis who looked at all the trouble the dwarfs seemed to go through with guilt."Humans get sick easily and Master Agathus said they need to dress warmly at night, even in the summer." Andrea said, her platinum hair in a plated bun.
"And what if I spoke the truth", Prince Dwayne, finally recovering from his shock, snapped. His glare swivelled from Alexis and Alastair, that prank Alexis pulled already frustrated him, but then the Emperor actually appeared.'Was it even a prank?' He thought, clenching his teeth. He had always felt inferior at his lack of ability to perform that inherited technique and now it felt as though Alastair was laughing at him. His inferiority complex at full throttle."Trying to undermine
"Agathus, I've gone through it a lot of times and I don't think there's anything to fix". Alexis spoke to the hybrid man with bags under her eyes, he didn't glance away from his own pile of documents, "Please. I can't go through it another time!"At the desperate cry he finally looked at the sleep deprived girl."Fine. Place it over there and get some sleep." He pointed at his desk, adding it to his mental list of tasks to be done. She threw the finished exam down where he pointed, i
The exam had finally been sent off to the Capital orphanage and questions of who could supervise the exam raised. All the while, two weeks had passed and through sleepless nights and sheer determination, Alexis had finally read through all the books.Whether she actually took in any of it was a question only she could answer. During these weeks, she had a surprising amount of visits from Joshua who interrupted her intense reading with strange demands, once he asked for a hair, another time for a drop of blood and another time to ask if she felt upset when people called her by her name.
Alexis soon found herself in a carriage, a sense of excitement and adventurous romances taking her logical thinking away as she had her head outside the window.'Like a child', That's what Alastair thought as he stared at her.Whether it were the purple hills filled with colourful flowers, or the white lakes with large salt rocks at it shore.
Soon enough the orphanage staff created two separated groups of desks. One side for the Eastern Empire children and the other for the born and raised Kaedman Empire. The kids piled in and sat in seats, their ages ranging from 11-13, no younger and no older. It was the age in which most kids went to apprenticeships and schools in this worlds."Hello kids, this exam is a very special exam", Alexis spoke reading off the script Hector had helped her write in the carriage, "If you do well in it you will have the chance to hone your skills in school or in work", Alexis noticed how the Kaedmen kids faces brightened up and couldn't help a chuckle. Understandab
"Why didn't you come sooner!" A youth shouted at Alexis who was taken aback. His body was only barely smaller than hers and those familiar red eyes that she couldn't place anywhere unsettled her."What do you mean?" Her voice seemed to echo in the strange place she was in. It wasn't a room, but a space her brain had made for this dream.The youth didn't hear her at all and continued to glare at her until his eyes glistened and his face dropped slowly to his fisted hands.
"You already sorted out all the work places and scholarships?" Alexis' brows rose well beyond her forehead as she stared at Agathus in shock. "But, why? Aren't you busy?"She full well knew that the amount of work she had to do would take at least half a day and waiting on letters of admissions would leave a longer waiting time. She shuddered at the thought.Agathus gave a smile, one that for once, wasn't tired or bothered looking. He looked... happy.