Chapter 16: The Sword

It was early in the morning and Sera already heard the knights’ chanting for their morning training when she heard her brother’s voice calling out for her outside her bedroom door. She rubbed her eyes as she looked at the door. She was still half-asleep when she went out of her bed and opened the door for Andrei.

“Good morning, Sister!” Andrei messed her hair but Sera didn’t react to it as her attention was caught by someone who stood beside her brother.

“Brother Xander?” she asked to confirm if her eyes weren’t messing with her sight.

“Andrei requested to bring you to the training grounds. You wouldn’t be allowed to enter if I wasn’t there,” Xander explained with his arms crossed and his expression looked annoyed.

“Really?” Sera’s eyes sparkled and her face lit up. Knowing that her family was a knight family, she always dreamed of entering the training grounds, but