Chapter 4
"What do you mean, don't? My lady?" one of her maids ask with curiosity.
Her eyes are full of doomed dreams.
She shook her head. "it's nothing, and Reina" she called the maid that is now sitting on her bed.
"Send a letter to the imperial family, I'll visit the crown prince" she sternly commanded the maid.
Zeianna prepared an envelope, paper, and ink, never forget the wax to melt.
After she waxed the envelope, she gave it to the maid to submit it to the Palace.
She walked outside of their house, the wind is swaying to her hair smoothly, the smell of roses are giving a scent to the garden. She decided to sit on the swing hanging to the middle of the rose farm, romanticising its great design.
The sunny artwork of the roses matches his red dress with white rose motif on it.
"Did you give it?" she asked. Reina, her maid nodded. Zeianna patted the vacant space of the swing and let the maid sit in.
"What's life for you?" she asked the maid smelling the rose that she picked earlier before being called.
"Well, life is that how it revolves around ourselves, the story of us, the story of others, experiencing reality by interacting authentically with the environment and the others" she answered.
She saw the true meaning of life through spiritually and scientifically.
Zeianna nodded at her answer. "you, my lady, what is life for you?" Reina asked, her scrutinising blue eyes looked at her bloody red color of her eyes, that is similar to the eye's of the vampires.
The lady shook her head. She doesn't know the answer.
Reina got shocked at the next actions of the lady, a red string, looks like a thread, came out from her fingers, followed the trail of the most beautiful rose and cut it.
"Is it... Nothing?" the maid asked and a second later, the rose is now on Zeianna's hands.
"Look at the rose" she said. "all of its thorns were now ruined, for me, the definition of life is that where no villainess are ruining your journey ever" she added, she plucked the rose petal and talked again.
"Did you see that I plucked the rose petal?" her maid nodded. "that is the start of people's death, death happens physically or emotionally. Death on physical happens when we were stabbed, beheaded, or anything that we feel physical pain, but pain on emotional hits the most, it starts from losing a loved one, until you reached from losing yourself, leading you to death"
"That's... Deep" the maid said in amusement, looking at her emotionless face.
"There's a lot of invitations for you to attend" Zeianna's butler started talking. She take a look at her mini basket of envelopes.
There were so many of them, one of them is a tea party from Countess Shirley Victoria's daughter, Contessina.
The Victoria family is widely known as the house of gossip. Despite being one of the aristocrats, their family never avoids spreading rumors after rumors to other families.
She never forget the day they spread gossip onto her, that she's such a monstrous creature whose never been in the outside world.
Next one is a banquet ball of Duke Felix Montemaria, their family is kind though, but whenever the heir of the Montemaria family talks about business, their mind became empty, as empty as his mother's brain.
Well, she guess that's normal for a low class person to be an airhead.
"I must never attend, I have talks with the crown princess tomorrow"
"How's the meeting father—" she almost grasp her father but he avoided her.
Duke Zachary Emery is known to be the current duke of the Emery family. The bond between lady Zeianna and duke Zachary are now in blurred lines after the late duchess Adelia Catherine Emery died from childbirth, one of the members of the Juvelino family, whom possessed bloodbending powers.
"I was just asking you how's the meeting" Zeianna whispered, and go back to her room to read books.
It was night time, guess it is time to read a romance novel.
She read the book until she reached the end. She fell asleep with the book covering on her head.
That dream happened again, but this time she's in a dungeon, the dungeon was filled with filthy stench, with bones and old clothes on every cell.
"Get in!" one of the guards command her. She looked fiercely. "when will I told you that I am not a Juvelino and I am an Emery!" she screams at the guards face but the guard stay still. Unbothered.
Suddenly she heard a thud, a thud of a black haired man, and also has the same eyes as her.
"Please... Spare me"
"A Juvelino like you must shall not be spared, even your niece will be on demise with you" the guard said, and hit him again, making him scream at pain.
"Now lady Zeianna Yves Emery, whom you don't want to be tortured until death, you must shall obey the crown prince or you'll face your fate like your uncle—"
"Good morning my lady, old duke Seleno Juvelino is in the balco—"
"NO!" the lady rushed onto outside. "my lady!" the maid runs after her.
"NO! NOT UNCLE SELENO!" she screamed while running but her strength faded when she bumped onto someone.
It is no one but Seleno's heir of the house of Juvelino, Kirstein Juvelino!
Her first cousin!
"You didn't take a bath and screaming around the duchy, is it how a lady should act?" he asked to her, emotionless.
Zeianna shook her head, it seems like she leave her self in embarrassment, but it didn't stop her to tell her reasons.
"Uncle Seleno will die under the hands of the crown prince, even me will also face the same fate as him"
Kirstein laughed. "your dreaming" and left.
Zeianna left alone in the hallway, doomed. Her cousin is also blinded with power and talking about dreams is the topic, he'll never believe in it.
But still, she ran away, when everything is on her way, she pushed everyone and got away with it it like a mad woman until she reached the living room.
"Uncle Seleno..." she muttered, she still managed to say a word after running for miles.