"She left the ceremony," Darling said.
The room went quiet as Damian did not give an immediate response, and Katie thought of entering inside.
'There should be something more,' she thought.
That could be a fact, it was possible for something more to be found inside. The thought of Raguel's room had given her that idea, a picture was found inside. Wasn't it possible for something concerning Charles to be found in Darling's room?
'Charles had something to do with Raguel, but Darling…'
That came with so much uncertainty.
"Why would she leave the ceremony?" Damian's voice came up.
Katie heard a sigh.
"I do not know, but I feel she has something up her sleeve."
"Something up her sleeve…"
The room was dark, and Katie could not see anything. A shadow would have been appreciated, and it would have been easier for her to tell if they had decided to sleep. Nothing could give her that clue.
But then, a candle light was turned on, and her shadow was made to show on the wall.
'Hell no…" She rushed to hide behind one of the sofas.
"Who's there?" Darling asked, and her footsteps got close to the room door.
"It might just be one of the maids."
She came out of the room, and the only refuge Katie could find was to sneak into the other rooms where some of the maids were sleeping.
"Who's there?" Darling was standing in the sitting room, holding the candle as her eyes checked out the corners. "I thought I saw a shadow."
Damian came out, and held her softly from behind. "The maids are always walking pass."
She stared at one of the doors. "It could be."
He urged her to go inside the room, but she moved slowly, walking backwards. If it was possible for her, she would have placed a portion of herself in the sitting room to act as a watchman while she stayed inside the room with him.
She gave up the search her eyes were doing, finally going inside the room.
The candle went off, and darkness took its place once again.
Katie was still in the room of some of the maids. There were about four of them sleeping on the same bed. She noticed that Darling had turned off the candle light, and decided it was time for her to leave hiding.
"Ooh…." One of the maids woke up with a loud yawn. "What a wet night…. It's time I went to Sagio's room."
She turned on the candle that was by the bed, and Katie almost tripped to the floor while trying to hide.
'Too much hiding, why wouldn't they sleep without waking up at every hour?' She hit her palm against her thighs.
"What was that?" The maid took a quick scan of the room. "I would make sure I check for rodents when it's day."
She got to the door. "For now, I can't let such a sweet night go to waste without a deep stroking."
She turned off the light when she opened the door, and Katie guessed that she was her partner in hiding.
Katie left the room to regain the position she had at Darling's door.
'I might have missed some information.'
It was quiet, so quiet as it should be for the night. She didn't like it. Confusion was already taking its place as she was unaware of the next move to take.
'I have to go inside the room.'
She held the door knob, but was hesitating. Another thought crossed her mind, how was she going to see even if she succeeded without their notice?
Just when she was about to turn the knob, Darling's voice was heard.
"Charles used to have a diary."
Katie got her hand off the knob, but then, the door had already opened. If she left without using force to close it, it would open wide, and Darling would know. If she used force, Darling would also know.
"Charles had a diary?" Damian asked.
Katie had to hold the door for as long as she could.
"Yes," Darling said. "He made a record of everything he did."
"And then he gives it to Raguel?"
"No, it's a personal diary, and it also contains names."
"What kind of names?"
"Names of people he had related to, and the reasons for every relation."
They stayed quiet again, and Katie's effort to keep the door closed had not yielded any fruit.
'Why not I leave the door open.' She thought.
She left it, and it slowly opened, giving out the usual sound that was related to doors.
"The door has opened!" Darling said all of a sudden.
Katie froze.
"Let it be," Damian said. "It's obvious that the breeze has pushed it."
Darling gave up getting out of bed to check.
'Oooh…. Damian has been so helpful.'
"I know where to find the diary."
"Is it that important?"
"Very important."
The communication between Darling and Damian was somewhat out of the ordinary. They would start a conversation, and would go for a break that Katie couldn't tell if they were sleeping or awake.
It was that frustrating.
'I would love to go inside.' She tiptoed inside.
The room was not as dark as she had thought. The moonlight brightened it to an extent that she could see most of the stuff that was inside.
As she stayed longer, her eyes adjusted to the level of light in the room, and the first thing she observed was that Darling and Damian were not wearing any clothes. Darling was in Damian's arms.
'But I didn't hear any moan from them.' She almost laughed aloud, but placed her hands tightly against her mouth.
Their eyes were closed, but she doubted that they had decided to reward themselves with sleep.
The wall touching the head side of the bed also had a picture, just like it was in Raguel's room.
'Has it turned into a custom?'
Anyone would have suspected that.
Charles' picture in Raguel's room was also something new because the picture was not always there.
'Whose picture would this be?'
Katie was faced with the temptation of climbing the bed to see for herself.
'I might have to wait.'
She allowed an hour to pass, and it felt obvious that Darling was already beginning to snore. That gave her the go ahead.
The risk started as she started climbing the bed, trying to lessen her weight so it didn't depress to wake either of them from sleep.
The picture had become an ultimate goal, and she succeeded in getting to it.
"Who are you?"
It turned out that Darling was not far gone into sleep, and her fingers touched her legs.
She jumped from the bed, started a race out of the room. Darling's nakedness bought her some time as she tried to cover up herself before leaving the room.
"Who the hell are you?" Darling shouted from the room, and her voice woke Damian up.
Katie managed to get into one of the other rooms, and the sexual moan she heard caught her attention.
"Who are you?" The girl on the bed with the man asked.
'This voice….'
She was the maid who had left the other room.
They tried to cover themselves.
"Close the door!" The man said in a depressed voice, trying to sound as low as possible.
"You have to hide so you don't get caught in this act."
They had to oblige as sex between non-mates, or mates who had been matched for less than a year was prohibited.
"But who are you?" The maid asked.
"There is no time for that."