The gurgling of running water in the pool makes the atmosphere not so tense. The gusts of wind between the trees were slowly rising. No one continued the conversation between the rest of us. I’ve been explaining what I’ve been thinking since this morning. My body became senseless without any calmness.Uncle Brandy had already explained something a while ago. I didn’t take it seriously because my mind was filled with opinions. The chair creaked as Thod stood up to turn his gaze towards the other object.“Why is there the same problem every day?” Thod murmured.“I’m looking for the answer, too,” Terrence said.“Do you think I like this thing? Breathing is very difficult, even if you hope that sleep will be calm after you experience this.” I stared at Thod’s back sharply.“Calm down. You don’t have to feud to discuss this problem.” Uncle Brandy spoke up and tried to look calm.“It doesn’t make sense, Uncle. Look, there’s no way the buried Boy isn’t the real Boy. We saw for ourselves
“We have to get the key. No matter what method we use,” Terrence said.I laughed and thought Terrence was crazy from sleepiness. I ignored Terrence. Pull up blankets and make pillows as comfortable as possible.“Do you want to steal the key? What should we do if Grandma finds out that we stole the key?” “We can come up with an excuse to answer Grandma's question,” Terrence replied to my question.I’m not calm.“There are a lot of oddities that bother my mind. Boy ... if that rotten man were still alive he would be a threat to our peaceful life,” Terrence muttered.I yawned. I rubbed my eyelids with the back of my hand and complained. The sound of birds and chickens sounded loudly indicating that the day had begun. The cold morning dawn made me unable to think straight. Terrence mumbled telling me to get some sleep. He caressed my belly gently hoping to get a little movement from the little angel in there.“Morning is coming soon, you'll feel dizzy if you don't get enough sleep.” Terr
“I... I just—“ “You walked into the park in boots, Lady.” She is Mom. I breathed a sigh of relief for a moment if it was Mom. Mom tilted her head and looked at me with a strange look. “Is there anything wrong?” Mom asked me. I shook my head and stepped up to him. Worry hit the heart quickly. I suspect something regarding the herbal powder mentioned by Grandma a few seconds ago. Does Grandma intend to abort the womb? Who is pregnant besides me here? “Katie? Is there anything wrong?” Mom surprised me once again. I shook my head once more. “You’re so weird. Look, your face is so pale.” “I gasped at your presence, Mom.” I lied. Mom raised one of her eyebrows. Mom's unconvincedness to me was clear —she doubted my answer. I tried hard to control my emotions so as not to appear to be hiding something. “I'm not sure you're okay? You're scared of something I don't know, explain it, Katie.”“No big deal, Mom. I was surprised when I saw the hydrangea.”“You're so weird today. I hope y
“I don’t want to eat green tea tarts, Grandma.”Grandma was taken aback by my statement.“What’s wrong, Katie? I ordered a green tea tart for you last night. The green tea tart is still worth eating since it came a few minutes ago.” Grandma muttered in a pathetic tone.“I don’t feel like eating any meals today,” I dodged quickly.“Is that true? You rarely turn down your favorite food, Kate. Why did you reject it all of a sudden?” Grandma asked me.Mom took the box of tarts and said, “Kate is going through hormonal changes. Kate is pregnant for the first time, Mom. Let me take this to Kate’s house and keep it in the fridge so she can eat it any time.”Grandma smiled and nodded. “That’s right, Kate is pregnant for the first time. Kate must have had no appetite and all. There are many struggles to go through when you are pregnant for the first time.”I rolled my eyes in disgust. Grandma’s conversation with a mysterious person a few hours ago pissed me off. Grandma pretended nothing had
Terrence went outside the house at eight o’clock in the evening, before leaving he went to get something from the servants’ bedroom. I don't know what he planned for that night. I didn't know at all until a knock on the main door surprised me. In my mind, it was Terrence who had gone home or some of his stuff was missed. But my thoughts were wrong. It was not Terrence but Thod who visited.“Grandma told me to deliver plums candied.” Thod thrust a transparent mica box filled with candies.I accepted it despite my doubts. Thod had taken the trouble to bring the plums candied to the house–even though it was only a few meters away. I felt like I was a burden for Thod. After all, the road between the wooden bridges had its lights off because it was struck by lightning a few days ago.“You're alone?” Thod asked me.I nodded and invited him inside. Thod stepped in doubt, from the look in his eyes I could read that he was awkward because he was not used to visiting my house. With a courteous
With the advice given by Terrence, slowly I descended the stairs. Anxiety and losing control of myself still ran through my body neatly. The gurgling water in the kitchen makes me curious about who came to visit us during the rest time.“Kate hadn't been seen since just now, had she fallen asleep?”I cleared my throat after realizing it was Mom, I quickened my pace and saw Mom was sitting on the living room sofa. In front of her was a shiny cardboard box.“Have you been sleeping since then?” mom asked me a question.I shook my head.“So, why don't you open the door for me immediately? Did you purposely let me die from the cold?”“You're too melancholy, Mom. You often get cold but all this time you haven't died of hypothermia,” I said.Mom rolled her eyeballs, then glanced at the shiny box in front of her. Mom said that it was the sausage she made. She wanted to give that to me and Terrence when it was warm. I responded with a weird smile.“You know since Tamara and me worked to pay fo
The creak of the iron being cut gave me goosebumps. Judith sharpened the iron with sandpaper until it was clean and shiny. There were three keys that we faked for a few minutes—the key to the graveyard gate, the key to the garden hut, and the key to the medicine room.“Soon this will be over, sir.”“That's good news. I have to return it as soon as possible.”The young man nodded and smiled. He was so deft in duplicating the keys as if he had over a hundred years of experience. A few minutes later the duplicate key was finished printing. Terrence hastily ran into the palace area to return the original keys to Grandma's room.“Excuse me, Lady may I ask a question? Where has Your Royal Highness Queen Isabell gone, Lady?” Judith asked me.“To the orphanage. They had been planning it since yesterday. They invited me to join but I don't have time because we are going to make sure of something,” I answered immediately.Judith nodded politely then signaled that Terrence was running over. I ru
At first, I couldn’t know the tall man but after he ran over to us. I realized it was Jake. Nina's Mate. He panicked when he saw Terrence passed out with a pretty bad wound on his shoulder. Jake asked me what happened that Terrence was so gravely injured. I can't explain because I'm so worried about Terrence's condition.Jake understood this, he struggled to help Terrence to his feet—I helped him open the car door. Made Terrence sit safely beside the driver's seat. Jake provided a soft pillow to cover the wound.“Can you drive a car?” Jake asked me.“I can. But this car, I've never driven a car with a manual transition,” I said.“That's easier said than done. I'm going to visit my grandmother in Winter Ashes, I can't possibly leave you here and just give you the address of the nearest hospital.”“I don't mind if you leave the two of us here. Terrence is already in the car. I can drive this car slowly.”Jake sighed and folded his arms across his chest. “The hospital is thirteen kilomet