The next few days might have passed by quickly for others but it was long time renjiro he had to endure caelia's fussing and her constant invasion of his privacy since she had nothing else to do, and the academy had been boring as always. He couldn't even spend time in the simulation room or with lyra because caelia was always hounding him.
She came up with ridiculous things to do whenever they were together, and this time around she insisted that he went shopping with her, she wanted to get some more dresses in one of the stores in a neighbouring town. He wondered why she wanted to leave the castle when she could get any dress she wanted custom made and delivered to the castle in record time but he didn't voice his opinions, he just grumbled a few times during the past few days to keep up with appearance.
While he was getting dressed the door to his room burst open and caelia charged in her hair, all over the place.
''what is going on?'' he asked
''get dressed quickly, we have to leave now'' she replied with urgency in her tone
Renjiro thought it was probably something serious and wore his pants in record time before being dragged away by caelia, she pulled him through the corridors managing to dodge a few guards till she pushed open the castle main doors, startling the guards in front of the door. She charged towards the vehicle pulling renjiro with her and jumped inside before the guards could regain their composure and chase after her.
The vehicle zoomed off and renjiro saw finnegan and alaric run out of the castle cursing at the top of their voices at the sight of this caelia started laughing maniacally. Moments like this made renjiro wonder if she was completely sane.
''are they the reason you were running'' he turned towards her, her hair was still all over the place but it didn't take away from her beauty.
''of course, if I let them they'd follow me everywhere, knowing fully well that I can protect myself and that I am more powerful than they think I am''
''if that's the case you could have just ordered them to stay behind, you could have saved yourself the stress of running around''
''yes I could but where is the fun in that, these few days I have been free has been my happiest in a very long time. Moreover tomorrow I have to get back to work the lab should be fully ready tomorrow'' she explained with a sad look on her face.
Renjiro wondered why the thought of going back to work made her sad, he actually thought she enjoyed it. They spent the rest of the trip in silence but caelia's face lit up once again as the town came into sight, compared to sunflower town this town looked more modern and it had a lot of high rise buildings, each building was covered in plant mosaics but there were no flowers in sight, this was the first time he hadn't seen a flower or plant in a large area since his transimgration.
There was a huge banner with the sign 'welcome to rose kingdom'.
''rose kingdom, but there are no roses in sight'' he laughed at the irony.
There were a lot of vehicles of different grades, color and sizes. The kingdom was indeed colorful but it was just as chaotic, the population density was off the charts. From where he was above he could see hundreds if not thousands of people milling around.
Though this was the first time he was visiting the town he already knew a lot about it, the indigenes were known for their cultural ingenuity, they supplied the rest of the world with different high grade fabrics and produced some of the best combat and protective wears.
There were a lot of factories about but the air in the area was still clean, also considering the amount of people moving around.
Caelia navigated the vehicle and parked it in atop the roof of a very tall building, she alighted and gestured for renjiro to join her, a woman who renjiro remembered to be amara silverthorn soon came out with a considerable number of maids to welcome caelia .
the maids bowed and stood a considerable distance away from both women as they hugged each other.
''lady amara'' renjiro bowed, the dark skinned woman smiled and rubbed on his head before turning her attention back to caelia.
''lady caelia you look as beautiful as ever''
''so do you'' caelia replied with a smile
''let's head in'' lady amara said leading them through the metal door atop the building, renjiro was amazed by the simplicity in design of the building interior, there were glasses everywhere with strips of clothes in them, and workers milling about placing the glasses horizontally into wooden boxes.
''we package the clothes here and seal them in those airtight glasses before shipping them out'' she explained to renjiro.
''is there a reason why the clothes are sealed in air tight glasses''
''The materials used in making them has a strong reaction to air, when exposed to air for a certain period of time it constricts to wrap around it's wearer, if there is nothing to wrap around it collapses on itself, making it useless.''
Renjiro wondered why such material was still in demand considering the great disadvantage but he didn't air his thoughts, renjiro didn't get to see more of the textile complex before being led into lady amara's office.
Lady amara felt something was different about caelia but she couldn't exactly place her finger on what it was.
''tea?'' she asked
''yes please'' caelia replied taking a seat opposite lady amara, the walls were grey and there were clothes of different colors hung around the room showing that she took great pride in her work.
''is it ready yet?'' caelia asked
''soon enough, I am sure you'll like it when you see it. If that's the case. I'd like to look around before heading back home''
''it was nice seeing you'' lady amara replied while leading them to the door