The cold breeze of the wind, brushed her neck-length silky silver hair. Stood there Arianell Crane, the only daughter of Keanu Crane at his secrecy and private funeral. Arinell lied the red rose on her father's almost finished tombstone, his favorite color, bright red on the faded cracked black tombstone.
She arrived late because she had to take 16 hours flight all the way to get to the Imperial Colony, from the Main Land.
Imperial Colony was an old city with classic ambience. It was a city in which the most elegant music and art civilization thrived. Compared to fast pace and modern Main Land, the Imperial Colony was the kind of city where you could stop for a while and enjoyed your life.
Imagined you could take the sip of a cup of milk tea while staring at people walking by on a terrace of a small café would be the kind of life that you could have in the Imperial Colony.
Amidst the slow and relaxing pace offered by this city, there built the long line of hotel chains passed down from one generation to the next generation of Empath families empire. The empire belonged to Arianell's family. And as her father had passed away, then it was her turn to rule the business empire.
Managing one of her father's hotel chains in Main Land was never one of Arianell's passions. Left alone now she needed to master the whole hotel chains as a replacement for her father's permanent absence.
She was merely an Empath who enjoyed her time alone or be with her students to explore the knowledge while taking the design major in the plainest campus in the Main Land. Plain it was as it also had the best knowledge in the all-know library.
That was the reason why Arianell's father asked her to enroll in that plain campus. Sooner or later, Arianell had finally known that she had to be in the next line whenever her father stepped down or as now, he passed away.
Her father's mystery of death was still unknown that he took a taxi in the middle of the night to go back to the office in such a hurry, and never showed up in the office. The next morning, his body was found shattered in the park.
There were some signs of an animal or a mythical creature, if they, who couldn't speak would like to refer to the other side of the night, with four strong legs like the legs of a horse.
The police still investigated the kind of creature or animal that attacked Arianell's father. And they kept on reporting to Arianell right away. She knew that her Empath instinct would come in handy, thus she asked the police to let her know each time there was a clue hanging to be solved.
While she was standing there in front of her father's gloomy colors tombstone, she reminisced how her father could understand, despite the fact that her father was also famous for being an alpha psychopath.
People just couldn't understand the work of an Empath. A strong and true Empath like Keanu Crane would always put the lives of many above the lives of the minority. He cut the unnecessary parts, even if it meant to cut some ineffective families from his hotel chains.
He knew it very well that there would be more highly capable workers came along as the company would thrive freely to help even bigger number of people.
Empaths worked almost like a fortune teller, though they actually didn't predict the future. Since they didn't have feelings and emotion, they actually absorbed others' feeling, especially those who urgently in need for being understood.
Understanding others for Empath meant also to know what would happen and what would people do in the future. It was just a simple math tattooed in their minds each time they came across with the people who were in need to be helped.
The patterns of one's brain to think and to act would be easily known and automatically memorized by the Empaths after they calmed and put the person in need of help, in a peaceful state. It was almost like a drug that a strong Empath could do to others.
It was a drug in a good way. The one thing that brought all the goodness to the world was the ability of a strong true Empath.
While Arianell understood it very well, she was still weak. She just didn't know that in certain time or in particular encounter with one ancient creature, her power would finally grow. Not fully developed yet, but it would when she met her true lover of a lifetime.
She found this insight when it occurred in her dream. That she needed to be careful of who would be friends or foes. It was because she was also warned in her dream that she wouldn't know when the friends or foes were coming.
The only clue she remembered from her dream was when she was told that she would meet her lifetime lover bound by a curse brought by her lifetime soul mate. She met him under the big blue moon then he just disappeared when she tried to reach him in her dream.
Thanks to her understanding father, Arianell got the chance to teach few students privately while attending the plain campus majoring design, with the condition always showing up in the board meeting of Crane Hotel chains in the Main Land.
"I want to be useful in this Main Land," she said.
As normal person could expect from an Empath, Arianell had the urge to bring good deeds and happiness to her surroundings, though her father's line of business was an opposite to her deepest interest.
"How was daddy's funeral, Mr. Tanaka?" Arianell asked an old thin man in a black butler suit, her father's most trusted concierge.
"Just like your father, my lady, graceful, serene, tranquil, and private," the old man replied…
-to be continued-