04 - Queen aka Mistress

Kerian Nozel Lavinous, the first child and only son of King Charles and Queen Cordeilla Lavinous. He isn't like Gazellean who's emotions are like rock, he grew up with very affectionate and supportive parents. A sweet, and outgoing person. Atleast, that's what they say.

They say that if there are two beings who share the same blood, one is good and the other is bad.

The silver-blue hue eyes that vaults many hushes, and such beautiful silver hair that what people like to describe as 'Pure like Magnifica.' His features are of course, appealing, that when you paint him, the painting can be sold in billions.

Delight can hide melancholy, just like how love can hide bitterness. But what can we say, too much attention can nurture you with deceit. How wonderful to live in a world where you can freely trust people...

...unfortunately, that's not how it works.

Lumina's POV

I was dazed, dumbfounded at the sudden disclosure. Still processing what Sapphire said earlier. Bewilderment grazed my mind. This feels like that kind of information that feels illegal to know. My favorite music box from Sylvia suddenly stopped working this morning, was this supposed to be good or bad news? Why did Sapphire trust me when I'm not even Empress yet.

Setting that aside I walked back to my room with the books Sapphire told me to study. They were a lot, but I'll try to manage.

But walking towards my room felt like floating in the clouds, my body was there but my soul wandered, I snapped out of it when someone bumped into me and all my books fell.

I annoyingly sighed and bent down to pick the books one by one, when I noticed a pair of feet with blue rhinestone shoes stepping on the book intentionally. The foot stomped on it harder making the book cover damaged.

I gritted my teeth and looked up to the owner of those feet, I glared when I saw who it was. The girl who screamed this morning! I stood up in a dignified posture.

"Excuse me, but you are stepping on my book," I said with a fake smile and forced politeness.

"So? What do you think should I do?" The girl arrogantly said. I looked at her from head to toe and noticed her exaggerated dress and over-the-top hairclips. Judging from her looks, she looks young, or maybe one year younger than me? "Hmph! What are you looking at? Anna here told me that your the future Empress of Anastasia, well I doubt that would happen." Her bratty tone makes me want to shove her brunette hair in cow manure.

I guess the Anna she mentioned was her maid who called her this morning when she screamed. Children like this should eat cold canned soup. The part she mentioned about the future Empress didn't bother me, I never yearned for the title anyways. It's her insulting tone.

"Listen, Lady..." I looked at Anna, her maid, who was beside her hoping she could mouth me the girl's name.

'Yvette,' Anna mouthed.

"Listen, Lady Yvette. I do not know what your business in this place is, or who you want to meet. I never bothered you and I'm just minding my own business, you should too." I picked the book she stepped on and was about to continue walking. I then glared at her and gave her a playful smirk.

My heels sounded so powerful clasping on the floor, give respect to those who deserve respect people!

I could hear the frustrated shouts of Lady Yvette to poor Anna. Oh well, I may have behaved immaturely. But sometimes, throwing fire to fire works.

I huffed finally reaching my room, removing the heavy weight of books. Sighing at the number of books I have to study, "Do those people expect me to slurp all the information in these books?" I whispered under my breath. Then the shelves of books in the Phoenix quarters popped up in my head, "So I have to study all those books too?" I banged my head on the table, this is frustrating.

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"That girl already brought a headache to my empress even though she's still a Queeness." Fourth spoke in his deep, intimidating voice.

Gazellean smirked, "What a shame, Your Majesty. The other faction supports the girl. She's bound to be your Queen aka Mistress." He sipped his tea and continued, "But don't you worry Fourth, Lumina is the perfect future moon." His tone warmed.

Fourth glared at him, "Are you perhaps interested in her? You seem intimate."

"What?" Laughing at the question thrown at him, he turned serious when Fourth intensely stared at him. "She's my best friend. A sophisticated, and lovely lady, but I have no romantic feelings for Mina. She's a little sister for me." He shrugged and sipped on his tea again.

"Good."

"Hmmm, someone already caught feelings huh." Teasing Fourth wasn't easy, he either gets angry or throws papers at Gazellean, but this time he...

"Are seriously blushing?"

"Tsk." Fourth spoke annoyingly at the laughing Gazellean who even had few tears.

Gazellean and Fourth are in the Emperor's library discussing a problem with the floods in the West, well not exactly. They were in the middle of reviewing the situation when Butler George informed them about the incident this morning of Lady Yvette screaming at Princess Lumina who had smudged makeup on her face. It was a funny situation, but Fourth was pissed at Yvette for screaming at his lady's pretty face.

"So, tell me," Fourth crossed his legs and rested his back on the one-seat couch, with elbows resting on his thighs and fingers intertwined, "What does she like? Places she enjoys?"

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