"Why are you this way?"
"We-Well my lord. You see... actually I was running and my dress got cut in some bunches, hahaha " laughed Martha as she turned red in total embarrassed.
"And here I thought you would at least care about how you look before others." Maxwell said sarcastically.
"My lord is not-"
"This is why you need a proper nanny, Raven-," the lord stated as he cut off she off. "-One that is not only proper in manners but in character as well,"
" That's kind of hypocritical of you, my lord." Martha said with all seriousness and determination. Gone with the shyness and embarrassment, it since like the lord was itching of a fight, again.
"What did you say," asked the lord as he approached her.
"I said you're being a hypocrite, your lordship." She replied with a mocking smlie as she stood face to face with the lord.
"Please, do tell you why am such a hypocrite," But the nanny only smiled as her got closer to whisper in to his ear. " Well...a few weeks ago your mother lady rose, payed us a visit and she was very kind in tell us about your lord naughty childhood days, that my I say is quite interesting and who could know the lord better than his own mother," she exclaimed to looked up at the lord's face to see the shockness in his eyes which he tried to cover but it was already to late.
" Damn it," Maxwell Cursed under his breath as he pulled back from the woman, he could felt a sudden headache forming.
Back then in the lord's youth, he was very mischievous and notorious for having many unpleasant scandal and knowing his mother, she would have spilled everything out. This was truly a nightmare!, and on seeing the annoying smile on the nanny's face, the lord would only grits his teeth as he glares at her.
"The lord never learns, does he?," Whispered Thomas to James.
"Well...you of all people should know that he hate losing to an argument, especially to miss Martha." said james with a nod.
It was no secret that the lord and the Nanny have a very strange relationship; as the lord is hellbent in chasing the nanny away from his life while the nanny is determine to annoying the lord for a very long time. The lord would have just easily fired the woman or better yet buried her body in a forest, which he would happily do himself. but with he niece strong attachment to the crazy woman he was helpless in doing so.
"Anyway the whole point in this is that my niece need a proper educator," Maxwell said as he tried changing the conversation back to the previous one.
"But why can't Martha just teach me" Raven said to have one on her uncle's brow rise.
"That will be the day that all my hair falls of my head." But what the lord really wanted to say what ' it would only happens when he dies' and like knowing what he was thinking, the Martha could only shake her head in odds.
"Then I do not need an educator." Replied the girl.
"What are you saying," Asked the lord. " Of course you need one, for how will you know our way; our origin, and how we came to be in this glorious land."
'oh... no', Murmured Raven inwardly as she proper herself for her uncle's long story of the world they come to live in.
Long time ago where the kingdom of human coexist with magical creatures, especially the faixy, lived together in union and melody and all was at peace but very thing suddenly changed over night as a great war broke out between the two people which once coexist together was now fill with hatred and conflicts. Not many knows how the war came to be and those who knew died with the secret in their heart's.
The great war, as it was known to be called, lasted of five years with out stop as it claimed many life's and the irony on it all was that no one among the two people were winning. So the previous faixy queen at that era declared that is was best for all magical creatures to flee to the black forest, which was known to inherited demon. And in hast many creatures where left behind and the forest was sealed with strong magic, getting no one in or out.
Although a centuries has passed after the war, the bitter cried and hatred still remains till this day.
Raven have heard the tale form her uncle as many times as she would count, that If anyone ask her to explain she would narrated the whole thing as If she had experience it first hand, her uncle made sure of that especially as he ever failed to mention how he was one of the heroes who made it out alive form the war and was ranked a legend all around their land.
"Raven!, Are you ever listen."
"Umm... What?" The girl immediately snap out from her thoughts to receive a heated glare from her uncle. "Seriously was will I do with you." Hiss Maxwell.
"But honestly, I fail to see the point in all this constant knowledge," Raven stated with a pout as she crossed her hands.
"Don't worry you will soon understand, right after I hand-out your punishment."
"What!!...why?" The girl state with disbelief, and seeing the whicked smile on her uncle's face, she knows he was not joking.
" Let's see... hmmmm-" The lord hmm as If he was in deep thought to finally snap his fingers to said with a very clam voice. "- how about for the whole mess you've created for the pass two month."
"Bu-But uncle-"
"Don't plead yet, am not done talking you who your new educator is."
" W-who," Muttered the girl, as she receive the most shortest, yet painful reply in her life.
"It's me."