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Year 352 - Late Fall - Royal Palace: Tercel, Kingdom of Laurel
“May you have a pleasant day, Your Highness.”
“I share the sentiment.” I looked over the few faces of the nobility before me as I sat at the head of a round table. “Please look forward to more developments. I’ll have the samples ready in a few days.”
“That is helpful, Your Highness.” A noble said.
“On another note, Your Highness,” another noble mentioned. “My son is intereste—”
“I understand I am of marriageable age, however, such matters are best not discussed in such a manner, no?” I slightly tilted my head and expressed a pleasant smile.
“... It seems so. Now then, if you’ll excuse me.”
The nobles left the room promptly. After the door closed, I stood up and asked Erina to take care of matters for the next meeting. I approached the door and had another servant escort me.
It was not long before I left the room and moved towards my personal quarters in the palace. It was a long walk from the left wing to the right. Fortunately, I did not come across anyone aside from the guards and servants.
“Allow none to enter other than Erina,” I mentioned as I opened the door.
“Understood.”
“Now then.” I took a deep breath and scanned the room. Nothing was out of the ordinary. Or at least, it was an ordinary room on the standard of royalty depicted in books.
Well, those books had several exaggerations but it was not that far from the truth anyway.
I approached the single couch facing the window. “It’s quiet here as usual.”
There was not much to ponder about the room. It may be my room in the palace but it was not my original room from five years back. And since then, I've stayed in this room less and less with each passing month.
“After all, the Palace is but an empty place.” I relaxed and focused on the soft sensation enveloping my body. “For me, at least...”
My eyelids gradually fell and I felt my consciousness slip. Ahh… I really hate this place…
Thud! Thud!
I immediately sprang to my feet and removed the hairpin from my hair and felt like a dagger. I held it in a backhand manner and scanned the source of the sound. “Were the servants careless or was it the guards?”
Seriously, why now?! I’d be locked up again if Mother or Father finds out I’m being targeted again! In the palace nonetheless!
Thud! Thud!
I reacted to the sound and realized that the sound came from the shelf near the desk. I warrily approached as I raised my focus.
Thud! Thud!
“What?” I could not help but blurt. The sound came from a book on the shelf. The shelf was full of books. There was, in every sense, no space for anything else.
I kept a doubtful eye on the book trying to move out of the shelf without lowering my guard. Still, it was hard to wrap my head around the situation. Eventually, the book made it halfway out of the shelf and fell on the floor.
[Finally!] A small blonde girl with butterfly wings emerged from the book.
I did not waste time to grab the creature on its wings and pointed the tip of the hairpain on its abdomen. “Who are you?”
[Hiieee!] The creature cried. [I-I’m just a Fairy! The name is Talya! I mean no harm! P-please! Spare me!]
“What are you doing here? How did you get here?” I asked as I glared at the Fairy.
[Like I know! I’ve been in that book for a long time!]
“The book itself had none of its pages carved out. It’s physically impossible for someone like you to be inside that book.”
[Of course not! Who even uses such a lame trick to hide themselves in a book in this day and age?! The reason is magic! Fairies are not blessed with pure mana for nothing!]
“Tch!” I had to admit, books often depicted Fairies as beings who were overwhelmingly physically weak. However, that weakness was covered up by their specialization in magic. On another note, I pride myself as one of the top students in my Academe, yet I have not heard nor seen anyone practice spatial magic or something similar.
“Then why did you choose to leave the book now?” I asked, ignoring the Fairy's request to put away the hairpin.
[It’s simple! The magic crystal in the book’s spine has deteriorated too much so I had to forcibly leave!]
“That’s too much of a coincidence.”
[It’s not!] The Fairy struggled with her arms and legs. She immediately stopped as I pressed the hairpin to her neck instead.
[What do you want me to do to prove myself?!]
“Good question.” I pondered. Grandfather believed in peace and communication between different races. However, I am no fool that would apply such ideals in all matters like some certain heroes in history. “Why did you decide to remain in the book for as long as it could?”
[It was doing it on an agreement with a human! Oh, right! That human was supposed to be the king or something!]
“A king, you say?” I voiced my confusion. “Do you remember the name?”
[Ah, right, he mentioned his name was Randolf! Yeah! Randolf Laurel!]
“...”
I could not express in words my surprise. Or was it confusion? In the entire time that I kept myself stuck with Grandfather as much as I could, I have never heard him having a fairy acquaintance. If anything, it would have caused a huge turmoil for the king, the previous king, to causally speak with a fairy of unknown origin. Nevertheless, information about Grandfather is valuable.
“... what is your relationship with my grandfather?”
[grandfather? EH?!] The fairy stared at me, slack-jawed. [He had a granddaughter?!]
“Unbelievable...” I heaved a sigh. “To think such an existence was connected to Grandfather before I was even born. If that’s the case, then it’s safe to say you have met my grandmother?”
[Oh! Oh! Was her name Galilea?! Then, yes! Yes! Definitely!]
I took a deep breath and freed the fairy. “Try anything funny, and I won’t hesitate to kill you.”
[Why are you like that?! Who hurt you?!] The fairy fluttered to the desk and sat on the edge.
“We have time, so let’s talk.”
[Eh? Well, sure. It’s not like I have something to do at the moment.]
“I’m assuming you were aware of Grandfather's dream. Is that right?” I crossed my arms and kept a fair distance between us.
[Yeah. Of course. It’s also the reason why I’m helping him anyway.] The fairy nodded. [By the way, where is he?]
“He has left this world.”
[... I… I see...] The fairy looked down and remained silent for a minute. [He’s gone huh. Really, it was going well.]
“What was going well?” I questioned.
[His plans in introducing a more peaceful method to reconcile races.]
“Ahh… as usual.”
[Oh, it’s not just the usual races humans usually see and meet, okay? He meant every single race in the entire world!] The fairy raised her arms in the air.
“The entire world? Grandfather was definitely ambitious, however, humans have limited information on what’s outside this continent. This continent is even largely unexplored for us humans.”
[Well, there are races such as us fairies that could go pretty much anywhere since our place does not physically exist in any place in this world. I think he wants to utilize that ability to connect different races around the world.]
“Ahh...” I placed a finger on my lips. “That is indeed plausible...”
[Also, do you know the history of the races?]
“There are accounts in history but there are different theories.”
[Oh, yeah... Humans have not been around for too long since the reset...]
“Reset?”
[Yeah, but that’s too much of a topic so let’s skip that. Let’s just say that us fairies were mostly unaffected so we technically have knowledge beyond what humans have recorded.]
“I see.”
[Also, did you know that most conflicts between races originally started since they mistook them for some intelligent beast or something? Back then language was a huge problem! But Gods intervened and gave every single race an ability! That ability is telepathy! It is unconsciously triggered when one intends for another race to understand what they are saying!]
“It coincides with the theory from a professor I know. A race is determined if you can communicate with them through unconscious telepathic communication.”
[Yes, that’s it!] The fairy raised her right hand and showed a thumbs up. [Wow, some humans really are intelligent for guessing that right without knowing history at all!]
“I believe we are straying away from the topic.”
[Oh, you’re right. In any case—]
Knock! Knock!
“Your Highness, your next appearance is approaching. Erina would like to enter in accordance.”
I faced the fairy and said, “hide yourself and don’t show yourself to anyone else. Let’s continue the conversation later.”
[Okay!]
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- 9/19/2021, 8:51 AM
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Bio: Hello! I'm a new/amateur author. English is my second language, and Silver Amelia is my first work. I hope you can give your thoughts about my work.
