"What is your name?"
"I'm Ayaka Bharain, what about you?"
"Me? I-I'm Xyer. "
"Xi-yer? What a weird name. "
"Would you like to visit the tree where we first met?"
"The tree where I saw you crying because you can't get your cat and you can't climb on it?"
The child giggles. "That's right."
"Lady Valeraine?"
A voice and a few knocks on the door make me open my eyes. I am in my room already at the Emperor Eryx Villa. Yes, I remember that those bandits tried to capture me.
"Lady Valeraine, are you awake?" It is Lord Arzael's voice. "May I come in?"
I check myself and I'm not wearing anything appropriate, only my nightgown. "Please wait!"
I immediately changed my clothes and I opened the door of my room. "What's wrong?"
Lord Arzael's facial expression says that something is happening and I need to know it.
