Renjiro felt pressure on his chest area, someone seemed to be pushing down on his chest. He opened his eye groggily and saw that it was lyra who was trying to get him awake.
"Wake up and get prepared, you will be late for your mother's party" lyra said forcing him up
Renjiro remembered caelia saying something about a party when he came back from school but he didn't pay much mind to it, he forced himself up and walked to the bathroom to get cleaned up leaving lyra still seated on his bed, he showered and draped on one of his family's regalia's. it was made of red pants with double golden stripes along the sides and a white buttoned shirt with an array of golden stars around the neck, he draped on a red cape with a pair of golden fluffs on both shoulders and the family's crest on it's back.
He looked at himself in the mirror and was pleased with his appearance, he stepped out of the room and lyra clapped her hands in delight and commended him on how fantastic he looked, he saw that lyra was still not dressed.
"you hassled me to get prepared when you were not ready yet, I guess I was still sleepy eyed that's why I didn't get to notice that" renjiro said
"oh! Don't worry about me, my clothes are here already, I just have to get dressed." She said and jumped out of the bed
Renjiro watched with a smile as she left the room, she had grown on him during his time here. He sat at the edge of his bed and fiddled with his while waiting for lyra to get dressed, after a while a knock sounded and myoko's head peeked into his room.
"lady lyra is done getting dressed and she's waiting for you young master" she said and dashed out immediately
Renjiro walked down the corridors of the castle and knocked on one of the doors along the corridor, this was the room lyra always stayed at whenever she came over to his family castle.
"come on in" lyra called out from inside the room
Renjiro pushed open the doors and was star struck by her image, he always knew she was beautiful but she looked ethereal dolled up and his eyes remained fixated on her bust area which looked to be spilling out from her dress.
"you perverted animal" she said and threw a mirror at him
Lyra was dressed in a silver colored gown that had differed colored gems on them, her bust was pushed out by the bodice of her dress, there was a blue gem necklace on her neck that lit up her eye and her blue hair was tied up in a bun and a crown placed atop her hair.
Renjiro offered her his arm and led her towards the great room, as they descended down the flight of stairs, renjiro scanned through the faces of the guests that were invited, everyone was outfitted in their family's regalia from the memory he had at his disposal he could recognize a few elites that were in attendance. The twelve noble families were duly represented, he saw morwena hawthorne and her husband, both were nobles and were known to be very ruthless to the kingdoms they ruled over, lady morwena was a reminder to renjiro that not all the women in this world were beauties, she was stout and pudgy with a large mole on her face, her husband looked considerably better. Caelia had always warned zephyrus to avoid getting into confrontations with people from the hawthorne family, they were known to be very brutal and violent
He saw seraphina blackwood another noble who was a breath of fresh air to him after having to stare at lady morwena, she was having a conversation with a beautiful dark skinned woman who he recognized to be amara Silverthorne another noble the women let out hearty laughters during the course of their conversation.
"zephyrus! come over here" caelia called out to him, she wore a long green gown that looked a bit plain but accentuated her curves, he tried not to move his gaze towards her breast area.
"I wonder why she dresses this way if she is going to host parties where the guests dress extravagantly" he thought to himself as he approached her.
"mother!" he called out to her with a smile
"come say hello to lord balthazar darkwood"
Renjiro remembered this man, he was also a noble he had sly eyes and there was something unnerving about him, the man seemed to look into your very soul whenever he looked at you, he wondered how caelia felt comfortable around him since people avoided him. It was even evident in the party asides from caelia no other person seemed to be coming close to him. Lyra removed her hand from his arm as he walked to meet balthazar, it seemed like he also unnerved her too.
"Hello sir" renjiro said bowing politely
"How are you doing boy, I heard from your mother that you had been causing her a lot of trouble" he said with a smile
Renjiro chuckled nervously he knew the man was making small talk but he was becoming more uncomfortable with every second he spent in the man's presence, caelia also seemed to notice this and dismissed renjiro leading lord balthazar to other guests who were also making efforts to avoid him.
Renjiro went back to lyra but Phineas had already gotten there and was trying albeit unsuccessfully to have a conversation with her, renjiro cleared his throat and Phineas turned back aggressively to tell off whoever was interrupting him but was left speechless after finding out who it was.
"ze….. zephyrus!" he stuttered leaving renjiro amused, ever since renjiro punched him Phineas had been making conscious effort to avoid him.
"if you wouldn't mind I would like to have a discussion with lyra" renjiro said to him.