The next morning Irina and Roman were having breakfast. As usual Nieal joined them. They all were in the dining room sipping tea while butler Rhys was preparing the table. He served food which he freshly brought from the manor and was cooked by Nieal’s personal cook. Eying the food in the butler’s hand from the basket on the way to the table, Lila thanked the butler. “Thank you, butler Rhys. The food smells delicious.” Butler Rhys smiled. “Cook Ryan prepared it for you, Miss. He knows you like the stew that he usually prepares, but for this morning stew, he said he made a little modification with the ingredients, he hopes you like it, Miss.” “Tell him I’ll love everything he prepares for me, and will eat them wholeheartedly.” “I’m sure he’d like to hear that.” Replied the butler kindly. Putting his cup onto the saucer, Nieal snorted. “Why don’t you learn how to make it, then you can make it yourself.” Irina lifted her forefinger, then moved it sideways left and right. “Na-uh, I d

Waking up in the morning, Irina went to freshen herself then hurriedly back to her room. She took the book from the table then sat on the bed. she opened The Cotts. The first page was empty. She closed it. Then she opened again, from the back. The two last pages was fill with a family tree. She found her name written under her parents’s name. Her name wrote with a bright deep blue ink. Under every name had a year of birth and death. She touched the letter of her name, she looked at them closely. Her year of birth was wrong. Then she examined the others.Frowning, she bit her thumb unconsciously like she always did while thinking. “It’s six hundred years from now. How is that poss

Irina was walking alone on the way to the library. She told Marthe to stay and wait for her at home, because she wanted her alone time without being followed.For the pass fourteen days she had to go on the training with Diaz by day and her father made her get up early before dawn to add more training about defense and practice it under his supervision.Every night she went straight to bed after she got home and cleaned herself. She even got used to have diner in the carriage on the way home with Diaz and the butler. Diaz also assigned to make sure she come bac

At the same time, six hundred years in the future. Snow was everywhere. A line of blood tainted in the white yard. King Armand stood behind his advisor. He inspected the surrounding area watchfully, ready for the after attack, while his advisor half squatted on the thick snow observing the blood.They were in the front yard of the missing scholar’s house. It seemed the attackers didn’t know about their fellowship bonding, the bond that allows them to alert the other whenever they were in critical danger to death. They created the bond with the little number of remain scholar plus the king himself, there was no time and less of intellect resource to make an advance bond.

The sun almost raised, Roman and Irina walked in Nieal’s vast backyard. Workers at the stable greeted them. Irina saw the rabbits that usually play with Dee, they were given generous amount of carrots for their breakfast. The morning routine in the mansion had already started indicated by the commotion in the kitchen preparing for breakfast and maids mopping the floor, cleaning the dust, and wiping the glass wall.They kept walking until reaching an orderly lines of apple tree. The morning soil was moist. Good for bare feet running.“Take off your s