"You want to sing now?"
come the question from father Lan, Gery Lan. there was a little crease between father Lan's brows.
the other Lans faces also looked no better than him.
they couldn't be blamed. after they have their family breakfast, their precious princess had suddenly inform them of her changed plan into singing.
let's not talk about how hard and unreliable living as an artist or celebrity could be.
the thought how father Lan had to pull some strings again to fufill his princess's wish gave him a little headache.
he didn't want to complain, but just...
father Lan pursed his thin lips and said again, "...but, princess, don't you want to go to the same school with your big brother Daniel? there's no department for singing in city A university."
...huh? big brother Daniel?
Sierratilda searched and searched through Matilda's memory about this big brother. several images of a gentle young man came up.
ah, so this was her childhood sweetheart.
in Matilda's memory, there were pictures of a young gentle man called big brother Daniel, Daniel Wu. she always though him as her childhood sweetheart, her groom-to-be.
but why did as the more she saw those pictures, she felt like the man didn't share the same affection?
whatever, in anyway, she was Sierratilda not Matilda. this big brother Daniel was just a stranger for her.
Right, no matter what, she only wanted and could only sing.
Sierratilda looked at father Lan. "Father, it doesn't matter if I enter another school. it doesn't have to be city A university, as long it has music department. I will join it."
"but your brother Daniel.."
father Lan wanted to say something still,but cut out by Sierratilda.
"Father, I am not blind. or maybe, I used to. but now, I relize. although big brother Daniel has always been good and gentle to me, it was only out of politeness for the sake of our family's friendship. anyway, you also know how I don't have any talent in business. if I stay there, wouldn't it ruining my own future?"
finishing what she said, she looked at the Lans reaction. father Lan, mother Lan, and the two big brother Lans, all unconciously noded their heads.
what she said indeed make sense. their princess future was no joke at all. but still...
"...sis, can you even sing though?"
Julian Lan, her twin big brother, slowly asked her. the other Lans also looked at her, waiting for her answer.
Sierratilda glared at him, "how can you be my twin brother? you don't even know if I could sing."
"well, we have never heard you sing before." Julian shrugged while looking at his twin princess innocently.
she looked at him accusingly. so be it then. instead explaining, she should just show them how good her singing was.
but Sierratilda suddenly paused. what song should she sang?
the real Matilda naturally didn't know how to sing, so she didn't have any memory of song lyrics.
and the only songs she knew from back then at shia are all sarjalian saintess' songs, which was in Shia's language. completely different from earth languages.
then, she would just humming then. in any way, as sarjalian saintess, her humming naturally as good as her singing.
so she start humming the call of the nature. one of the sarjalian holy songs she learnt from the temple back then.
it was a very delicate and gentle song. like a flowing water, the gentle breeze in summer.
when singing the song, could make her have a direct contact with the spirits of the nature.
while when humming it, although it could not call the nature's spirits. it could still brought out the purest state of the nature, and so calming the body and the mind when it was hummed.
when she ended her humming, it took a few minutes for the Lans before they could snap out of their relax state.
they found it magical, especially father Lan. he know that he had gotten old, and thus his mind wasn't as clear as it used to be. but after listening his princess humming, he could felt that he had reach the clearest state of his mind in his life!
"so.. how was it?" Sierratilda eagerly asked them.
"sis, you..." the eldest brother, Billy Lan didn't know what to say. he didn't know how to discribe the feeling he got after listening to her humming. but he knew that her humming made him feel great. he looked at his dearest sister in surprise.
"wow, sis.. didn't know you have a hidden talent! wait, since we're twins... could it be, I also have hidden talent for singing?" the twin Lan excitedly exclaimed.
the corner of Sierratilda's lips twitched a bit.
"I don't think so, Julian." answered Billy plainly.
"eh? why? aren't we twin" rebutted Julian.
Billy looked at his younger brother plainly and said cruelly, "you're a boy, our princess is a girl. while she can sing like an angel, it doesn't necesserily meant you could also do. she is after all our Lan family's princess, so naturally she is special. you are not."
"bro, you are too bias! you're so unreasonable!" Julian felt like crying. weren't they twin? how came the treatment different?
"who told you born as a boy. we only have one princess here. don't be a sissy." came another cruel answer from Billy.
but although he said that to his brother, his eyes were full of playfulness and joke.
Sierratilda secretly sighed in relief, it was good Billy turned down Julian's idea of singing.
the current Matilda could sing, was all because of her soul. if it's the real Matilda, since she couldn't sing, there was possibility that Julian as twin brother couldn't too.
if he insisted on trying on singing too, wouldn't he end up in disaster then?
while the two Lan brothers were bantering, father Lan suddenly clear his throat to get their attention.
the three Lan siblings then looked at him in anticipation.