In the evening, we had dinner in the dining room..Everyone was in there.
“How was your day Aurelia? How was Octavi in person?” Father asked me.
“It was great, father..Octavi seems like an amazing person, she told me about our family and peerage rank, which I didn’t know, and she showed me her moves with a sword.”
“Whew..she already showed her sword moves…”
“Yes father..” I looked at Aurelio, he seemed to want to ask father about the sword “And there is something I want to ask father.”
“What is it, Aurelia?”
“It seems Aurelio has an interest in sword. It happened when Aurelio saw the sword move of Octavi, and he was so impressed by it…He asked Octavi to teach him about sword, and Octavi with pleasure accepted it, but with father’s permission…Can father give Aurelio a permission to learn sword from Octavi?”
Father looked at Aurelio, after that to mother..
“My dear…I can’t say anything…It’s all up to you dear…I believe in your choice for our kids education and educator..”
“But is it too early for Aurelio to learn sword, he is just 7 years old, dear..”
“Dear, I think it’s okay for Aurelio to learn sword…Other families start to teach their kids sword when they are 7 years old..So it’s okay for him to learn sword..”
“Okay then..if you said like that..” Father turned his face to Aurelio “Aurelio, you can learn about sword, but you learn it from me…”
“From father? Is my father familiar with sword” I asked.
“Oh my…It seems Aurelia doesn’t know about your father’s capability with a sword, dear..” Mother replied.
“I can’t say it’s familiar, but your father is capable of holding a sword, maybe more capable than Octavi..” Father answered.
“Well..It is good news for you right, Aurelio..” I turned my face to Aurelio.
“YES..Thanks sister Aurelia for talking it to father..” Aurelio thanked.
“Oh my my…If Aurelio is so interested with sword, is my Aurelia interested too with sword?”
“Octavi have asked it, mother. If I am interested in it, she told me she could teach me.”
“Well, it is alright for you to learn sword too..” Father suggested.
“NOOO” Ophelia shouted “Sister Aurelia is a lady, why does she need to hold a sword?”
“My my…It seems Ophelia is so against sister Aurelia to hold a sword, why my Ophelia against it?”
“Because she is a lady, her beauty will be wasted if she focuses on a sword rather than a lady thing..”
“Your mother has held a sword too, even great with it.” Father said.
Ophelia’s face unbelieve what father said “Is it true, mother?”
“Yes it is..your mother had learnt sword since your age…”
“Why did my mother learn a sword??”
“Hmmmm..How can I say it…maybe to impress your father, your mother learnt about sword..”
Father’s face was so nervous..
“To impress father?” I asked
“Yes..to impress him, I learnt the sword, right dear?”
“Y..e..s.. It’ right..” Father’s voice seemed nervous.
Mother clapped “Right..How about Ophelia start to learn it too, but from your mother, and can compete with each other to raise each other’s passion in sword, who’s better at sword? Right, dear?” Mother with a cynical smile to father..
“Ye..s it’s a great idea, dear…but if Ophelia agrees to it, right Ophelia?” Father kept nervous.
“I will think about it first, father.” Ophelia answered.
“Ophelia doesn’t worry about being a proper lady, your mother will teach you to be a lady and be good with a sword.” Mother said
“Well you two are lucky, Father and Mother take their time to teach you two..Is that great?” I said to little two.
Aurelio nodded happily, but Ophelia still did not answer..
The dinner was over. When I wanted to excuse myself, my mother waved at me. Mother led me to a room with Adel. In the room, there was a chaise lounge, sofas, some chairs and tables. In my mind, it was a lounge room, in the tables there were cookies and tea sets. Mother invited me to have tea after dinner. We sat beside each other on sofas.
“Is there something my mother wants from me? That mother invite me to have tea togehter.” I asked
“My..your mother just wants to have tea with you, there is nothing I want from you..”
“If it’s like that..” I took a sip from tea..
“Honestly…I want to tell you about your fiance…”
I spurted my drink “WHAT??”
Immediately Adel came to me, and wiped my face and my dress with a handkerchief.
“Thanks Adel, sorry about it..”
“It’s alright Aurelia..” Mother said.
“So what is “fiance” about?” I asked.
“Well, I think it’s better to tell you about your fiance since you have lost memory..so you are not nervous about meeting with him..”
“It means I have a fiance..”
“Yes..you are, it’s normal for someone your age to have a fiance.”
“Okay, who’s my fiance?”
“It’s Fabian Julius, he is 2 years older than you, this year, he is 16 years old.”
“Have I met him in the past?”
“Yes you have…But it’s alright if you don’t remember it..”
“Does mother want me to meet him? If it can make me remember something.”
“No no no…mother just wants to tell you about him, there is no intention to arrange a meeting between you and him yet.”
“Well, if what mother said, Thanks mother for telling me about my fiance…”
“It’s okay…and I want to know about your day..”
I started to tell everything about today to mother. I told her about Octavi, her sword moves, the meeting between the little two with Octavi, and the grumbling of Ophelia. Mother’s expression was happy, and giggling when I told her about it…..and our tea time ended..
Adel started to lead me to the room. On the way to the room..
“Adel, are you familiar with holding a sword?”
“Yes I am, my lady..”
“Really? That’s amazing…Adel, what do you think of me learning about sword?”
“I think it’s great my lady…And I saw Lady Octavi’s sword moves was amazing back then, so Lady Octavi will be a great sword tutor for you, my lady.”
“Maybe I will ask her about it….and have you met my fiance?”
“Yes I have, my lady.”
“Can you tell me how my fiance is?”
“I think he is very handsome for you, and a great partner for you, my lady..”
“Just that? Is there something you can tell me?”
“I believe it’s just that..”
We kept walking, until we reached the room. In the room, Adel led me to the dressing table. She wanted to change my dress to pajamas because it was almost night time. I sat at the dressing table, and there was a bowl with water and towel under the dressing table. I thought she prepared it when we had dinner..She started to wash my face with it, comb my hair, and started to change my dress to pajamas..
After it was done, I walked to the bed, and Adel started to draw close all the curtains in the room. I laid at the bed, Adel said good night to me, and I replied to her. She left the room and closed the door.
“Fiance huh??…” I started talking to myself “How’s my fiance? Why don’t I remember anything about him? Well I don’t remember my own mother, how I will remember my fiance…” I changed my sleep position to a side position “…When will I remember everything?…I will just live my life without remembering anything, but try to learn new things…” I started to close my eyes, and fell asleep.
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Suddenly, I was in the middle of some ballroom. I was in white dress and there was someone beside me, it was a man with blonde hair. I could not focus on his face, it was like he didn’t have a face. We walked to the middle of the ballroom, and we were dancing..
In the middle of dancing, the man left me alone in the middle of the ballroom, he chased a woman with red hair. Everyone stared at me like they were ridiculing me and shunned me. I saw him with the woman, and once more, I couldn’t see anyone’s face, it was like they didn’t have any faces.
The man and the woman were approaching me while holding each other. Out of nowhere, I felt angry at them. The women showed off their hands holding each other to me, and she was smiling cynically to me. They left me after showing off. For some reason, I chased her and tried to grab her hair…But out of the blue, the floor was gone, and I fell off. I felt I had fallen off endlessly, while I was falling, I heard all the people laughing at me..
I closed my eyes…opened it, I was on the ground, In my eyes there was blood dripping from my forehead. My hands and my feet were being. tied In front of me, it was the woman with red hair. She looked at me and she raised her right hand in front of her face, placed all her fingers spread out, and suddenly grasped all the fingers like the claws of a bird grasping and tearing at something. Two men came to me, and put me in a sack, before I went to the sack, I saw the blonde haired man with the woman holding hands. I saw from inside the sack, they put a serpent, a c***, a monkey, and a dog in the sack with me. They closed the sack, and I felt pain from all the fighting between the animals. All the animals bit me, scratched me, pecked me, from all the pain, suddenly I felt in the air, and there was water coming inside the sack…..I was drowning….
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I woke up from the dream…started to scream in the middle of the night because the dream..Adel was the one who came to me..I just sat in the bed and wrapped myself with a blanket, I was so scared and made my body tremble and my teeth kept shivering. Adel was beside me, trying to comfort me.
“What was happening, my lady?”
I Ignored the word from Adel..
“I will inform his grace and madam, my lady..”
Adel left the room..
In the meantime, I was still sitting in the bed with a wrapping blanket.I kept looking my face down….Some moments later, I saw my mother’s face in front of my eyes..her face was full of worries for me.I lifted my head, and saw it was not just my mother in there, there was father and Sofia the physician.
“MY Aurelia! How was it going on? What made you scream and cry in the middle of night?” Mother said with a worried tone.
“Huh..what had mother said..”
“You are crying right now, darling…Are you not aware of that?”
“Heh?…I am crying right now?..” I tried to wipe my eyes with my hand, and saw there was water in my hand “It’s true, I am crying, mother…” I looked to mother and there was a tear in her eyes “but mother, you are crying too..”
“Yes I am, Aurelia, we are crying right now, what a weird situation right?”
I saw father pat the shoulder of mother.
“Dear, I think it’s great if Sofia examines Aurelia first..”
“Yes I know, dear.” Wiping her tears..
Mother gave a space to Sofia, so she could sit on the bed beside me..
“Hello, my lady, we meet again, do you still remember who I am?” Sofia greeted me
“Sure, you are Sofia, my family physician..”
“Thank you, for remembering me…..So what makes my lady scream and cry in the middle of night? Can you tell me the reason for it?”
