The sun shine bright and the wind are blowing. The leaf is blown away by the wind. At a beautiful garden full of flowers and trees there is a gazebo. In the Gazebo there is a set of chair and a little round table. On the table there is a 2 warm cup of tea. There is a woman sit on the chair. In front of her there sat a man. He is in the middle of reading a book. And he is wearing a hood. It was a silence and quite place. But, suddenly…
“Madam! Madam! Madam Chrishi!” a man comes in with a hurried step.
Madam Chrishi looked at the man with a smile. Her golden hair gleaming under the sunlight, her white pale skin look glowed under the sun and her beautiful eyes’s stare full of question at the man.
“My, my, my… Lord Bonved, did something happen?” Madam Chrishi questioned the man while tilting her head a bit. She places her chin in her hand and smiling amusingly.
Lord Bonved flustered a bit, he coughed. “Madam, the Prince has missing from the Palace.”
She looks confusedly at Lord Bonved. And she said with a confused tone. “If the Prince is missing. Why are you searching on my mansion? This is the White Shine Mansion, not the palace.”
“That is… Because his majesty likes to play with his childhood friend too much. If he is not here, where would he be?” Lord Bonved answered with a panic tone.
The Madam pondered a bit. “But En went to adventuring and Kairak is at the university working. There is no one here.”
“WHAT?! When did Lord En went away?”
“Around a week ago. There hasn’t anyone visiting me for a while now. My son, students, nephew, niece and my adopted child are gone working, studying, adventuring, married, or left me forever. Sigh… Once those Child got older, they left the nest like a bird. Well, you can try search at the university after this, Prince Blow likes to hang out in the practice arena while pretending as a student or put on some disgust. Oh and said to Kairak to come visit me after his work is done. I’m kind of lonely. Would you like to accompany me for a cup of tea?” Madam Chrishi looks at Lord Bonved while holding her cup of tea.
“I’m sorry, Madam. I must get going now. But thank you for the invitation.” Lord Bonved bowed deeply and goes away.
Madam Chrishi looked at Lord Bonved figure disappearing from her view. “You can come out now, Blow.”
The person who wears a hood who has hiding himself behind the bush comes out. His hood has already come off. He has a black hair with a dark blue eyes and he is a very handsome young man. He looked at the direction where Lord Bonved has left.
“He is already left right?” Blow looked to the left and to the right carefully.
“He had left, my lord.” Madam Chrishi takes a sip of her tea.
Blow run to the table and sit down with his book “Aunt Anne, how many times do I have to tell you not calling me like that. Just call me by my name.”
“Giggle… Fine, fine, fine, my little Blow. So what bring you here? En went away while Kairak is in the university. The others are either at the university or in a faraway place. This place has become empty. The nest is already abandoned. The little birds already fly away to a faraway place. Their wings already spread at the sky. Fighting and flowing with the wind.”
“Auntie, your words is full of riddle as always.” Blow looking at his aunt with amused eyes.
“Well if you want the riddle to halt. Please tell me what kind of wind brings you here?” Anne smiled.
“The kind of wind that never faltering in front of the beautiful jewel of aquamarine.” Blow answered.
“The aquamarine is shining brightly. Captivated the people who passed by. Even the Raven should be enchanted. With its wings descend, the wind should be followed. How the jewel didn’t find out about the wind being near.” Anne giggled.
“As the wind being near, the Raven should take the aquamarine first and fly away with it. The wind could only touch the aquamarine a bit and can’t whisper its voice.”
“As the Raven took the Aquamarine, it should fly with it. The Raven neither flow with the wind or fighting with the wind. And yet the Aquamarine still could feel the wind.”
“… I give up. I’m not really good with riddles anyway. I want you to sneak me in to the school as a normal student without anyone knowing I’m there.”
Anne placed her cup to the table “But you already done that before.”
“Not that. I mean a new identity. The nobles already know my face. I want no one know who I am at school.” Blow scowled.
“Hmm… That would be interesting and of course easy for me. You must hear that from others about that plan right? Since En, Kairak, and many others plus your father already did that.” Anne laughed a bit.
“Yup. Heard it from my father he said all of his minister are his friend at school before. He handpicked them all based on their skill, ability, and personality. Hell, even you and brother Kairak was once a Prime Minister. Next one would be Brother En probably.” Blow narrowed his eyes suspiciously.
“Oh. Come on my boy. I only take that seat for a year until the new prime minister selected.” Anne sighed.
“But after some time brother Kairak is chosen. And brother Kairak had done his job splendidly, even better than you. He even made the entire court kneeling in front of him. After only a year he quit. Even though all of the nobles and officials all had were begging brother Kairak to take the seat again. And he doesn’t want to come back even though he was asked to by father. When they went asked you instead. You refuse beautifully.”
“But I’m weak and old.” Anne wiped her tears.
“Say that in front of a young woman and they would all think that they are ugly. And you are being weak. Huh! You are even masculine than a man. You are the all-rounder Madam.” Blow takes a sip of his tea.
“Day after day, you become more and more like your father. If your eyes didn’t looks like your mother, I would think that you are your father.” Anne looked at Blow with a smile.
“Well, I am his son. If I didn’t looks like my father, whose son I am?”
Anne keeps drinking her tea. She looks at the sky. There is a little bit cloud today, but it still a bright day. Her smile already cease to exist, her eyes is full of sadness. A perfect picture of a sorrowful expression. “My dear boy Blow seems like someone is coming again.”
Blow hurriedly wearing his hood and said “Thank you for the tea, Aunt. Please consider my request.” He run and jumped the bust and went away.
“Young people these days are…” laughing while throws an envelope.
“Madam, there is some people who wanted to meet you.” A servant said after bowing in front of her.
“Bring them here. But first, told them that the Prince has gone to the institute. It will reduce their number. And is there some who dare to flirt with one of my girl…?”
“Chuckle, there isn’t anyone ma’am.” The servant laughs a bit.
“Good. If some of them dare to flirt with one of my girls just tell me okay. Bring them here fast, so I can shoo them away as fast as they came.” The madam yells.
The servant could only laugh. After all, their madam really hates some people who came to visit her formally with hidden motive. Especially, if the person come from a distinguished family who loves money and power.
After the servant went away. Anne takes a necklace out of her pocket. “Sigh… How tiring. Isn’t that right my dear brother, Lui.”
The necklace had the color of aqua but under the sun it keeps change color and looks more beautiful. Anne smiled at the necklace and closes her eyes as if she is praying.
B
low keeps his horse running. He is very happy. As the prince, he rarely had time alone. But somehow, this morning he was able to flee. Meeting his favorite aunt and get his wishes granted. His aunt, Julianne Claire V Chrishi is the Dowager Duchess of Chrishi. She is famous for being a witch, a shaman, an alchemist, a teacher, a swordsman, an archaeologist, a doctor, a specialist on law, a writer, a singer, a dancer, a storyteller, a general, an adventurer, an ex-prime minister, a beautiful woman, an actress, etc. The list is so long that all people in the north continent know her. If a person in a field where she is a specialist on there didn’t know about her it would be a blasphemy. In short she is a crazy freak who is super famous.
Suddenly, he is abruptly stopped and change direction. “Those guys really didn’t know the meaning of give up. C’mon John.” Blow told his horse to go faster.
From behind, there is a sound of many horses galloping. “Shoot. I shouldn’t have taken this route. John, we are going the hard way.” Blow makes his horse ran faster.
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ot too far away from there. A big castle could be seen. The castle is very big and majestic. If you go nearer, you can see the exterior of the castle is very beautiful and elegant. There is a tree lining in the way to the castle main gate. The tree itself has a white flower that glow. The land’s covered by green grass and some flower. The main gate is being guarded by 4 guards. 2 guards are inside and outside of the gate. If you entering through the main gate you could see that behind the main gate there is a garden full of trees and flowers. The garden is neat and cared. The flowers are in the middle of blooming. The door to the inside of the castle is standing big and strong but elegant and luxurious. The interior is beautifully arranged. There are some vases, paintings, and sculptures. It’s classic, elegant, beautiful, majestic, luxurious, grand and harmonious. If you go more inside you can find a big room or aula. That room has a big luxurious chair in the center of the end room.
In that glorious room there is a line of people standing. From their clothes you can tell that they are nobles and officers. They seem restless, tired, and panic. They are in the middle of arguing. Or should we say there are three groups. The first group’s wears armor. The armor is luxurious and they brought an aura of a knight. The second group’s wears scholar outfit and robe with a scholar aura. And the third group’s wears an official outfit. The knight group and the scholar group are the one who is arguing. Meanwhile, the neutral group only watches.
“You must be the one who let the prince escaped.” the people from the group of scholar accused the group of knight.
“What did you said?! Nonsense! It was you! You must be the one who let the prince escaped. You must be the one who plotted with the prince to makes all the guard knocked out.” One man from the knight group said.
“Hah! There is no way we are going to do something like that. You all must be slacking off from job.” The scholar group attack back.
“We the knights of the prince never slack off. Every 3 hours we change the guard near the prince quarter. Every half an hour we were patrolling around. And we always check the prince every 10 minutes. How come you call that slacking around? How about you?” the knight attack back again.
“We…”
Before the scholar group can said anything. “His Majesty, The King of Felluah has arrived.” An attendant yelled loudly.
Every single in the room stand in a neat line and bow respectfully. A man that looks like in his early 30 entered the room. He is wearing a luxury outfit and there is a crown on his head. His hair color is black and his eye color is very unique silver. He has a very handsome face. He walk toward the throne and sat down.
“So… Has anyone found my son?” The king of Felluah questioned all people inside the room.
All people inside the room can only shut their mouth. They cannot utter a single word. Then, a man came forward from the group of neutral people.
“Your majesty. His Highness the prince had gone missing since this morning. We’re already sending people everywhere to search him. We already search everywhere. We even went to her highness is resting place. But there no sigh of his highness. In the knight quarter, the scholar quarter, the pharmacy quarter, even the stable and kitchen already checked.”
“In the university we found nothing. A witness said that his highness was seen on the road toward White Shine Mansion. But, Lord Bonved went there and didn’t find anything.”
“Bonved? You mean Charlos Bonved?” The king looks unpleased or should we say tired.
“Yes your majesty?” The man looks confused.
“Sigh… I’m going to get a long lecture from her again this time. Next time sent someone who had already had a pretty wife. Especially, a wife that famous for being kind on the commoner’s talk.” The king sighed again.
Some people didn’t understand. “Your Majesty. Is there something wrong with Lord Bonved?”
“Most of you only know Dowager Duchess Chrishi when she is in work mode. But she is really picky at everything. Especially her guest. She didn’t like men who are single and not a good friend visiting alone. If you are men and single you must bring a friend. Or else she will be displeased.” The king looks like he had a headache.
Some people suddenly showed a pained expression. As if they are remembering something really hurtful. Even their face looks pale. They even started whispering.
“Earl Craven.” The king called
A young man comes forward. He wears an eye patch on his right eyes. He had a tall build, his eyes color’s blue and his hair is black. He wears a long black coat and a hat. Even though he is absolutely a noble, his hair style is a bit untidy; his hair length is a bit long it nearly reaches his shoulder. But overall his face is handsome and serious.
“Your Majesty. Please state your order and I will fulfill it.” The man kneels to his knee.
“Go and search my son. If necessary, meet Sister Anne.” The king ordered.
There was an eerie silent. The Earl of Craven shut his mouth tight and he only closes his eyes.
“I know that you don’t want to meet her, yet. But if you found my son you don’t have to go there.” The king said with a sympathy tone.
As if he is glad, the earl stand up and go away to fulfill his duty.
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