Dayie had always regarded herself as a girl who had taken over her father's characteristics, yet in terms of her wit, she considers to have inherited it from her mother.
Her mother loved all things black. She said it made her able to conceal herself from the masses, but to Dayie, the clothes made it rather easier to track down her mother. She looked exactly like the dark magician in one of her tarot cards. Dayie couldn't remember exactly which tarot card was it, but her mother looked one with the night in the black market.
Dayie closed the book that she was holding. It was already noon and the servants, around any time now, should call her for lunch. Usually she would eat by herself, given the fact that her brothers do not want to dine with her. So out of habit, Dayie would let time pass a bit later than lunchtime to have her brothers eat the food first. Patriarge is still on the traditionalist side, and it still values its customs despite the changing years.
