What's the most important thing you have done this year?
Survived.
-Unknown-
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Blue remembered Chaos's scent, it was the scent of coffee and when she caught his scent, she immediately jumped off the bed and ran toward the source of it.
She had been living in this manor for more than two months now, so it was natural for her to already know every corner of this place. She had a really good memory for a child her age, too…
The coffee scent that belonged to Chaos led her toward the west part of this manor. She ran past a few guards, who were familiar with her.
Some of them asked the little girl where she was running off to, but she didn't reply to them because her focus was on finding Chaos before he left again.
She stopped running when she ran past a door that led to one of the dozens of rooms in this manor. She sniffed the air and walked back until she was standing right in front of a wooden door in the color of dark brown, behind from which she smelled his scent.
Without knocking, Blue pushed open that door and walked inside.
"Chaos?" she called him. "Are you here?" She turned on all the lights to illuminate the entire room, before she walked in further.
It was another room that was filled with many papers.
Somehow, Blue was curious as to why they needed to keep all these papers rather than to throw them away, especially when they stacked them away on shelves, as if those old papers with the ink on them almost faded away, were really important.
"Chaos?" She called him again and found him in the middle of the room, holding a grey book in his hand. He closed the book that he was reading as soon as his eyes found her.
"What are you doing here?" His blue eyes stared into her hazel ones.
This room smelled like damp paper and a little bit sour. Her nose scrunched in disgust. Blue wanted to go out of this place immediately, but she didn't do it, because she found Chaos here.
"I smelled your scent," Blue said, she walked closer to Chaos and looked straight into his blue eyes, the same way she stared at him during their first meeting, without any fear or whatsoever. "So, I came here."
Chaos furrowed his brows. "You smelled my scent?" he repeated the statement, making sure he heard right. "How can you smell my scent?"
Blue tilted her head, not sure of the question that Chaos asked her. "I smelled you. Your scent, I sniffed the air, I breathed and I smelled your scent," she tried to explain, but when Chaos didn't seem to understand her words, she tried her harder.
On the other hand, Chaos looked confused, not because he didn't understand what this little girl tried to tell him, but because no one should be able to smell him. He wasn't supposed to have any scent.
"How do I smell?" Chaos cut off her words when she tried in various ways to explain to him. She was quite a chatterbox…
"Like coffee," she answered without hesitation.
"What are you doing when you smell my scent?"
Blue blinked her eyes, confused why she was asked this question, yet she answered him anyway. "I was about to sleep and I almost fell asleep when I smelled your scent."
"You are in your bedroom?" Chaos watched as she nodded her head. It was strange. Her bedroom was supposed to be quite far from this place. But, how did she even manage to catch his scent when he wasn't supposed to have any scent to begin with?
"What happened?" Blue asked, her eyes then darted to the book in Chaos's hand. "What book is that? Is that a bedtime story? Anne has been teaching me how to read and write and I am really good at it now. Anne said I learn fast!" She told him all of that and waited for some praises, but Chaos said nothing.
"I will tell you if you can find me again."
"Huh?"
But after saying that, Chaos disappeared right before Blue's eyes along with the book in his hand, making the little girl groan in frustration.
"Not again…" she whined and grumbled as she stomped her feet against the hard floor when she walked out of the room, after turning off the lights.
She sniffed the air, but this time, it took a bit longer for the wind to carry his scent over to her.
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"You should have known by now what the function of a door is," Knox said disdainfully when he saw Chaos appearing inside his room all of a sudden from the corner of his eyes.
His room was next to his, but it was rare for both of them to use them when they would spend most of their time outside.
"Don't open the door," Knox grumbled, he flicked his hand to close the door to the balcony that Chaos had opened.
However, Chaos opened it again. "Let some fresh air enter this smelly room."
Knox glared at him. He was trying to sleep, but this man just had to ruin his night. It had been two weeks since he got enough sleep.
"Get out."
Yet, Knox knew very well those words alone wouldn't be able to drive him out, but he couldn't throw him out of his door either, thus it only left him with one choice; ignoring him altogether.
Meanwhile, Chaos sat on the single sofa in this dimly lit room, trying to understand how that girl could smell him. Was that only a coincidence?
Chaos waited for her to find him here. If what she said was true, then she would show up soon.
Another minute passed before hasty footsteps could be heard, echoing in the corridor before rapid knocks broke the serenity of the night.
"Chaos!" Blue shouted from behind the door.
"I WILL KILL THIS GIRL!" Knox was infuriated when he heard that noisy sound.
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