This is my first time getting out of my room. For me who is not from this world, I would say that my house isn't a house, nor a mansion. This is a castle! A damn castle.
So, if this already looks like a castle to me because of its grandiose and elegance, how much more is the palace, right?
"Woah!" Sooooooooo big! I am now going down the grand staircase. Its balusters were pure gold.
The huge hall below is also exquisite. Everything in this house is majestic, and using my words of appreciation isn't enough to really describe and praise everything. Living in this marvelous estate must have really given the real Aerin power, well-- aside from her lineage, which made her act as if she's above everybody.
I haven't realized I already reached the dining area. There in the middle, was a long table with foods already set. Servants were stationed at the side ready to serve, and I believe that was the duke sitting at the farthest right end of the long table. Indeed, he's sitting at the chair suited for the head of the household. Maya guided me over. As I am getting closer, I gasped at the duke's sight. So, this is where I get my features. Genetics doesn't lie. Though light wrinkles were already visible on the duke's face, his handsomeness is at no par. He has royal blue hair, so that means I might have gotten the color of my hair from my mom. But his eyes were yellow, and that's the color of my eyes, too.
[A hunk, dad.] I laughed at the thought. His aura as the commander of the Knights Templar in this kingdom is emanating, you can't even deny it.
"Eherm!" I cleared my throat. "How are you fairing, your grace?" I asked as I sat down.
"Good," he replied. Then he motioned his hands to call for the chef. The servants also started to work in order to serve us.
"Tss! So, it was you on that day," I whispered referring to that day when I first woke up in this world, though not totally awake because I was in a coma. "Not fond of words, huh!?"
"How are you feeling?"
"Oh! I thought you wouldn't ask." I retorted. I myself was even surprised at my response. It was as if that was this body's usual response. Muscle memory, probably.
I looked at the duke. He didn't even look at me.
"Anyways, I am good," I added as I have no plan of acting just like the real Aerin. If I will live in this world, I will live based on my own principles and upbringing. I wasn't raised by my parents to be an unrespectful child. That was when the duke raised his gaze to look at me. I smiled at him.
"That's good to hear." he continued to slice his meat.
The relationship between father and daughter might have been bad to have such an air. It is suffocating me. If this was at home, my father and mother should have been bantering to some random things, while I, on the other hand, is busy acting as their moderator.
If he thought that I would let this dinner time pass without us having a proper warm talk, then dream on.
I'm an assertive type of girl. And whatever I want, I'd surely do. From this time on, everything should change. I'm already living comfortably. But I don't want to live in this kind of setup where I cannot even have a close relationship with my own father. Nor even a friend that I can be together with.
It's not nice meeting you in this way, duke. Or should I say, father?