The capital of Aguierra is getting livelier as the streets were decorated with different flags from different kingdoms as well as the different provinces in Matikadong council. Different kalesa brought from the different provinces as well as the veiled maidens appeared as they elegantly past off from the noble lords which was the tradition that every maiden must be ahead than a gentleman like choosing an empress first before determining the emperor like the empire of Mahar Lika founded by oral folklore of Empress Hara. Traders sprouted in the capital to witness the Kasa Buya festival where all Royalty, The Malayas and the slaves of marriageable age must be tied down to other household. Only the royalty and the noble people are of different festivity where showing off and selecting the next empress and emperor.
The maidens where separated from their main household's bed chamber and placed to different chambers as the Empress instructed. The wise royalty wanted to abdicated her throne for sure to deserving maiden who excelled at everything. It could be happier for the empress to determine a maiden who was born with a star of Hara as the high priestess always prophesied yet that star never shows in the skies for years.
The empress looked intently at the maidens as they took off their veils before her. She was quite surprised of the beauties before her unspoiled yet too dangerous to determine who could be one who will sit her throne. She was just caught by a certain maiden who look uninterested at the blessed festival as it look blankly. The Empress stopped before Bae Maylin and look at her as if she was trying to convey something.
Bae Maylin gracefully bowed down and not dared to look at the empress who stopped her walk, inspecting every maiden she brushed off. The empress laughed hideously as she looked how bored the lady could be as she tried to look into Maylin's eyes. She surely be cunning, the empress thought as she hid her amusement of what that certain maiden could do the couple days during the selection.
Every maiden is accompanied by their wet nurse but Bae Maylin prefer to differ. She even debated to her mother to bring Elanga with her instead and tried to show off with her, her accolade skill in embroidery to attest her claim. Her prowess never failed her as she beat her mother and get her father's favor instead. After escorted to their Itaman, she finished her panubok to be presented tomorrow of the opening ceremony of the festival. She assured that no noble lord would dare to pick her panubok and she calculated that she must be send home afterwards. She would just use some trickery to feel remorse and their province would select one of the finest girls instead of her in the next Kasa Buya. She carefully thought what would her panubok like, as she instructed the finest thread to be dyed with scarlet, earth and black. She thought of warfare pattern too different to the panubok she always praised off. This time every noble lords and princes would definitely think ill of her panubok as a bad omen and no one will give her favor as she predicted. After few hours of weaving her panubok, she just praised herself of her greatest masterpiece she ever had, while looking at the warfare pattern panubok badly.