"Huff…huff…huff. Mom, you were going too fast!"
Oseya, the maid smiled apologetically at Kurdva, prompting him to nod his head. She then turned to the little lass who was no older than nine—her human adopted daughter.
"Calliope, you shouldn't be here."
"But, Mom, I want to help! I am already a capable adult. Let me help you!"
"You are not old enough to work, Calliope."
"But…but my friends already train to become Warriors and they are also nine! I need to do something that makes me look like an adult, so they don't call me a crybaby anymore."
Oseya smiled bitterly as she looked at her adopted daughter. Her daughter was a bright child. She realized she was different the moment she turned three. She lied to her daughter and she paid the price. It was hard to tell her daughter she was not a Demi-Human now that her daughter believed she was one but a little different.
