5 Caught in 4k (Part 1)

(Synthea Pov)

"Mama where did you go? I missed you..."

"Oh my little Synthea! Mama missed you too. Mama just went on a date with your papa"

I wanted to go too...

I wanted to ask mama if I could go next time but the bunch of rags caught my eye.

"Mama what's that?"

"She's your new sister. We found her in the woods. Would you like to take care of her?"

"Yes please! But Mama, what's her name?"

"Hmm... She doesn't have a name that we know of. How about you name her?"

I couldn't hide my happiness anymore. Before I knew it I was jumping around. The mere thought about having another sibling really made my day.

After much consideration, we named her Freya Lux, taking the name of a strong war heroine hoping that it would grant her strength to survive in this world. Mama would always tell me stories about her before going to bed.

I'm often told that I'm rather mature for my age. I know that I'm just 6 years old but I'm the heir of the great Lux family. I can't afford to be a normal 6 year old girl. At least, in front of others. When I'm with my family for leisure time and nothing to do with family matters and heir education, I try to maintain my carefree attitude.

Mama said she should be around Mal's age so it's like Mal has a twin! Yay! Now I can play house with two babies! Usually, Lisa is the father because she's so serious and stoic like Papa while I'm the mother because I'm really compassionate like Mama. I want to be a strong woman like Mama. Mama never loses a fight against anyone except Papa. Mama says that Papa is really strong! I want a husband like Papa.

Oops, it's almost sundown. Time to help Mama and the maids prepare the meals. Mama says that a woman should always know how to cook.

I remember she said "You need to touch your husband's heart, and the best way to a man's heart is through his stomach!"

I will do my best future husband!

***

-fast forward 2 years into the future-

(Mc Pov)

I'm now 2 years old. I can now freely control the size and colour of my magic circles. So far I can control all of the basic elements. Fire, water, air, earth. You name it I'll conjour it. I didn't want to practise darkness yet because I still can't control my body yet. I still can't control my fingers very well. I can walk and maybe run a little but I always seem to fall down for some reason.

On the other hand, I can use light magic pretty well. It's just that I can't always practise it at night without waking up my parents and Freya. I don't know why he has such a girly name. He's a boy isn't he? That's why I call him Frey instead of Freya.

I always play house with Frey, Synthea and Lisa. I know that inwardly I'm already too old for it but I want them to at least have a good childhood you know? So I just play along with them. But I must say, I'm make a pretty good older brother if I do say so myself.

"Fwey! Like this!" I instructed Frey.

"Umu... Wwike this?" he asked while tilting his head a bit. Seriously, Frey needs to act a bit more boyish. I could've sworn he looked like a girl back there. Whelp, must be my imagination.

What am I teaching him? Magic of course! Like they say : if you teach someone, you'll learn from it yourself. I started him with just manipulating the size of a single magic circle. So far so good. Man, he's got talent! Ah. I'm teaching away from prying eyes of course. Can't let the adults on us. Coincidently, mom and dad were teaching the twins about history and stuff in the study so I took the liberty of 'playing' with Frey in mom and dad's bedroom. Phew thank god I'm not in line for the heir.

While Frey was practicing on his own, I started practicing my light magic. It's not like this opportunity comes by every day.

'Light is just electromagnetic radiation. If I can just alter the frequency of it, I should be able to conjour a hologram of sorts' I thought to myself as I devised my own spell. Paying attention to all those classes at school actually paid off. Don't underestimate a Student Council President!

I've seen dad heal wounds with light magic but I just don't know how to. I might need to ask him later. Well, in a few years actually. Who in their right mind would allow a toddler to practise magic? Not me. I'm pretty sane.

What I didn't realise was that Dania the maid was spectating from the corner.