"Celesta I am not supposed to tell you this now but you should stop expecting to meet your parents, It will only lead you to be disappointed," Jude mumbled with a sad look on his face."Why would you say that? Please tell me." I grabbed jude's hand as I looked up and pleaded with Jude." Celesta I... don't think this is the right moment to tell you about them." Jude guiltily looked away and distanced himself from me and my hands fell next to me.When suddenly horse galloping noises were heard. I looked up in the direction from where the sound was coming from when I came face to face with an unbelievable sight. Two pegasuses came flying towards our direction while drawing a carriage behind them.I couldn't help but gape at the sight in front of me as I slowly backed away on my feet. " Finally, Celesta here is our ride." Jude straightened himself after leaving with a sigh of relief." I, I can see, Is that pegasuses ?" I asked more to myself than to Jude." Oh, yes. Indeed they are pega
I nodded and rested my head on the glass window as I looked outside, we passed through the clouds lit by the moonlight in the night sky. I continued to stare at the scenery and didn't notice when somewhere my eyelids grew heavy and fluttered shut. I felt a hand on my shoulder but I was too tired to react and succumbed myself to slumber.I was awoken by a musky fragrance as I laid my head on something warm and comfortable but firm as it moved slightly. I just leaned more toward the warmth and left a sigh. I stayed there for some time until my senses started kicking back and I realised my situation and sat back up with a sense of urgency. I looked beside me to find Jude sleeping as he laid back in the seat. For once he didn't look like an unnatural being but a really tired man and finally was getting some rest. His hair was all messed up and his shirt buttons were open, I couldn't help but blush and turn my head towards the window as the sun slightly peeked from behind the clouds and
"Coronation ceremony? What coronation ceremony and why I am not supposed to be seen by people before it?"" Celesta shut up, will you? We have more urgent things in our hands right now. " Jude gestured at the door as he replied.I was about to voice my opinion about his rude tone but I was interrupted by a deep commanding voice, " I on behalf of Main City governance command whoever is inside to step outside this instant or I would have no option but to force my way inside."Jude gave me a quick warning look as he straightened his back. He then opened the door of the carriage and stepped outside. Sunlight came through the door as he proceeded to block my view and stepped outside. I slightly bent forward to see outside but before I was able to see anything, he closed the door behind him. I leaned back in my seat with an unsatisfied look on my face because of not able to see what was happening outside." Grand Prince!! " came a surprised voice from outside the chariot. My ears perked as
" I... I missed you, Celesta. I missed you a lot but you don't even remember me. Of course, it's no fault of yours but it still hurts. " Jude confessed with a quivering voice.I was unable to understand what he was saying, many questions came to my mind like have I met Jude before? Were we friends? How Did I lose my memory? But I ignored them and just tried comforting him, I could ask him questions any other time. After all, nowadays it seems like all I do is ask questions." Jude it doesn't matter now what happened in past. I am here now with you and that's all that matters." He just nodded and smiled like a toddler. I couldn't help but smile back at him. In our exchange, we never noticed when the carriage came to the stop. A loud knock on the door finally brought us back to the world. " We are going to cross the second gate, Grand Prince I mean lord. How silly of me, You told me to only refer to as lord in front of milady. It completely slipped from my mind. " the voice was of none
Jude finally sat down on the seat but behind the table and I followed his suit and shifted towards the window side. So I could have easy access to the table.There were two black lunch craters on the box table with some tissues and spoons. Jude carefully kept food craters one by one in front of us both and then passed me a spoon. I was so hungry that as soon as he kept it in front of me instantly removed the lid. It was extremely hot like it was made and was just served on our table. Its aroma wafted into my nostrils and just increased my appetite. I was just about to dove my spoon into the delectable cheese potato layers when I noticed Jude's food crater wasn't even touched.Was he not hungry? How can he not after so much travelling? I looked at him to find him with his eyes closed and hands together chanting prayers to Goddess Sagaria. I couldn't help but stare at him and my hand automatically rose up and I graced my fingers on the amulet he gave to me last night. I remembered what
" Home..., home the word sounds so foreign to me."Jude just stayed silent as he sadly smiled at me and leaned against the window frame. " It's comforting to know I at least have one. There is somewhere that I belong to, somewhere that I can call home."" Celesta, everyone has somewhere that they belong to." " Don't be so sure about it."Jude just raised an eyebrow at my response and I just gave him a knowing smile. That's when I heard something making noise outside the window, I got curious and instinctively opened the curtain to see who or what was it.It was just a bunny but a very beautiful one. It had pristine black fur that shined in late daylight. It chewed on the lettuce and looked up at the window with its beautiful amber eyes. The creature in front of me was simply stunning and I couldn't help but kept staring at him until Jude disrupted whatever trance I was in and closed the window rather harshly. " My God Celesta, why can't you follow a simple instruction of not looking
" Why? I thought flying pegasus were quite common here like horses."" They aren't rare yet not that common. Mostly only rich merchants, noble man and royalties travel in the carriage run by flying pegasus. Common people usually use horses or burros."" So flying pegasuses will catch attention but walking pegasuses would be completely invisible to other people."" First a fall we are taking I travelled roads and for people, we by some unlucky reason come across which will be very few. They wouldn't be able to notice their wings because pegasus runs very fast. To them, it will just seem like a very fast-running horse carriage and I don't think common people will waste that much time thinking about some horse carriage.""Common people... so, even in this world classism exists. Unfortunate that even the world with magic and mystery couldn't keep discrimination away."" That's how society works Celesta. For a community to function properly it must have some sense of order, a system."" Sur
" You just knew? That's not a very strong argument Celesta."" What are you trying to prove by doing this?"" By doing what? "" Questioning my past, everything that I know about myself." " Don't be silly, how will I question you about your past when you don't remember anything about it."I didn't respond to his remark and just pondered about what he said and after some time, I finally spoke." I suppose you are, right," I stated grimly with my shoulder slumped down and my eyes cast to the ground." Now, don't be like that Celesta." Jude patted my shoulder comforting and gestured me to walk on a stone pathway as he continued, "That's why we are here. We are here to find out about who you are, and all about your past and the first step to learning about your past self is to accept that you know nothing about anything and get rid of all restricting beliefs that you have developed in time to make your life easy."We walked on the stone pathway and Mr Alden followed behind us. We made our