"This wide land was used to be merrier with people and building everywhere"
I look at Sir Boru who is standing beside me.
We both stood near the field while looking at the wide lawn behind the inn.
"Over there used to be a big fountain where people always threw coins to make a wish. Over there, there will be hundreds of buildings mixed with homes, workshops and stalls."
It means this land used to be a kingdom? Or maybe a city?
I was wondering with my wide open eyes.
It seems there used to be workshops and stalls before. But why Lana said there's no shop even though money exists in this world.
"What happened?"
Father scratch lightly at his non itch cheek when I asked him that question.
"Well… maybe your mother can explain it to you better than I"
I nodded and father patted my head.
"Sure… I will ask mother after dinner"
"There's been a war occured 300 hundreds years ago."
Clangg-
The sound of the tea cup placed on the table makes the open air room visibly silent.
It was just mother and me on the balcony of the second floor.
The moonlight shining through the entire Laughing Cloud Inn.
The clear sky makes the stars appear like the sparkling diamond in the deep blue sea.
Mother looked at the sky and she started talking for a very long time and I was sitting beside her.
"Fairy Queen can live for a very long long time. And when they get married, their partner shares their life. Which means they can live as long as the queen is still alive but they would die if the queen dies."
My eyes stared at my mother. She opened her mouth and everything she said gave me goosebumps.
"For thousand years the first fairy queen rule this land alone, with every living thing live peacefully without any discrimination of races. One day she was so in love with a stupid man from underworld that create this stupid whatsoever rule that makes every living thing believe that...."
Mother was mumbling so viciously. I try to understand but sometimes it mixed with curse makes me think twice every time I want to ask a question.
Mother then turned back to her elegant and majestic smile, she drank from her tea cup before continuing her story.
"Anyway… long story short. 300 years ago, the peace of this land were disturbeb because I was married to your father. Everyone thought he was a weak man who didn't belong standing next to the queen."
I was thinking hard, does this mean this beautiful lady in front of me was living longer than her looks?
"But at that time I have not yet become the Queen as my aunt who was the second fairy queen was the one who ruled."
It means mother was not the first queen? I have a grandmother?
As mother was in her calm voice, I didn't dare to interrupt and just quietly listen to her every word.
"I choose him despite there's so many strong creatures around but still I choose him. All the greedy and idiot creatures were so afraid of their future and all the races started declaring war to determine the strongest race. This land almost turned into a barren land."
"Is the second fairy queen already married at that time?"
Mother just shook her head and sighed.
"My aunt who raise me instead of my mother was busy managing this land to become prosperous and never laid her eyes on things called love"