The countess gathered a small tea party for me and my mother. I saw a lot of prestigious utensils, such as porcelain, bone china, and silver. Even the table is made to look its prettiest, with cloth napkins and matching cups and plates.
The four of us are sitting and it feels refreshing outside. Countess Enia is a warm-hearted person, my mother and she is close. While her daughter is staring at me.
"Pardon me for my rudeness, Viscountess. This is my eldest daughter, Seraphim." The daughter frowned at me and my mother and the countess laughed.
She has long, silver-colored hair, with her center bangs over her forehead. Additionally, she wears a pair of purple stud earrings with a heart flory shape and a silver bracelet on her left wrist.
"My little Seraphim is a year older than Lady Anastasia.
"Why don't you and Seraphim go out for a walk? I and Mielle started like this way, too." Countess Enia said and my mother giggled. Wow, my mother is pretty.
"Sure, mother." Seraphim held my hand.
I thought she dislikes me? maybe it wasn't that case after all. I think all kids are bipolar.
Seraphim looks like an angel. Even her name means 'high angel from god'.
"You are pretty just like the rumors, Lady Anastasia."
"You flutter me, Lady Seraphim."
She smirked, "Call me Sera. Starting from now on, we are friends. We should call each other by our nicknames."
Brother Siu told me that only your family, lover, and a close friend can call you by your nickname. Seraphim and I just met, is this how this world works?
"R-right."
"What do they call you?"
"Sia."
I feel like she's plotting something, or was it my imagination? Sera is just seven. How can a young child be harmful?
"I want to tour you at the manor, Sia! This is the fountain, my most favorite place here."
We have one, too. I just smiled at her and listened to everything she says.
I overheard a conversation between the palace maids when I went to persuade the prince to teach me magic.
They keep complaining that the eldest daughter of the house of Silva made a scene, again. And that girl is Seraphim.
Why would she make a scene?
"I want to buy something at the town, Sia."
"But my mother wouldn't let me."
It's not like I don't want to go, but going to the town is quite tiring. I want to spar with her or do something that my and brothers used to do.
"What is your magic attribute, Sera?"
She frowned at me, am I imagining things?
"All of the family members of house silva are steel users. Why ask, Sia? perhaps your tutor didn't teach you that?" She said in a shocking tone.
Is she mocking me?
I'm too old for children's argument. She's not interesting at all. She may be pretty but I don't know...
My thought stopped when pressure behind my back made me tripped to the fountain.
I groaned in pain and my strength... I can't get up.
"Sia!"
I can't get up. I tried to reach Sera's hands but the fountain is quite high for children like us.
Everything went blurry and the next thing I knew is that I'm floating, and a man who is wearing a cloak is in front of me. He has parrot green hair which is tied into a short ponytail that reaches his neck. He is tall and handsome and has green eyes which are the same color as his hair.
"Greetings to Lady Anastasia. I am Professor Hayden from the academy. It seems like I arrived just in time." He smiled.