12 Name Your Price

A picture of a dreamcatcher flashed across Crescent eyes and to make all those more surprising, all such dreamcatchers came pretty familiar to her. This was because Juan Long was right, all of it was made by Crescent.

"You got these from my website right?" Crescent asked although she knew the answer to her question was positive. There's no way that anyone could take a copy of her works aside from downloading it from her anonymous site. She wanted to ask then how they knew it was her behind that site but since they were employees of Montarini corporate, it would be foolish to ask anymore. Of course those people were very capable of tracking down a normal site no matter how anonymous it was.

"Forgive us for the intrusion," Juan Long felt the need to apologize. "But these works caught the attention of the prince and so we wanted to know where you get the inspiration from these,"

"The prince? You mean Huzey Montarini?" She asked to confirm whether she did hear right. Did Juan Long just say Huzey Montarini took interest in her works? What the heck?

"Yes," Juan Long simply confirmed as if the matter was of no importance where in fact for Crescent it was huge! Imagine the national artist taking time to notice your work? How lucky could one get at that? Shit! Did she just hit the jackpot?

"He liked my work?" She asked again, her face full of distrust and incredulity. God, this all was too good to be true but she was hoping for the best. Perhaps this fact right here could seriously give her a huge advantage.

"He was curious where you get the inspiration for it," The prince's subordinate repeated his previous question. The prince called him a few days ago about the site where a certain dream catcher caught his interest and he wanted Juan Long to dig deep on it. He really didn't know what all this was for but he simply could not question his prince's orders.

"It's complicated," Crescent answered. Truth was, what Juan Long was asking was a very private question to her as the dreamcatchers she all made was something she did not do because of leisure or recreation. It was her therapy and every time she made one, she only thread something that first came into her mind—some imagery that she herself wasn't sure of. Sometimes, these imagery came from her dreams and to tell such a fact to Juan Long, she didn't think he would believe it. "I just love to thread some sort of thing, I don't really have an inspiration for it. Besides, I have made so many dreamcatchers already it's hard to generalize an inspiration from the bulk of it as every piece had a story of its own. If you know what I mean,"

"I understand," Juan Long responded with words that Crescent did not expect. She did think he would force her to reveal each of the inspirations of the piece he showed her but turns out it was just her assumption. Perhaps she had judged Juan Long too much and thought he wouldn't give her a break and would do anything, illegal or legal to make her tell. However, he didn't and Crescent felt like he was being easy on her.

"How about this one, would you be kind enough to tell me how you came up with this design?" Juan Long showed Crescent another dreamcatcher this time and this made her heart stop.

The one that Juan Long showed her wasn't an ordinary dream catcher. It was something she had when she woke up from her coma but didn't remember making it. It was a small dreamcatcher, the size of which can be compared to the bottom of a small glass. It was handed to her by the hospital where she was admitted when she was in coma, saying it was part of the things she owned when she was brought to the hospital. Thinking that it was hers, she tried making a dreamcatcher and realized that although she doesn't have a memory of making one, her hands seemed to be skilled in making it that in a span of minutes, she was able to make a dreamcatcher despite how complicated the art was. This came as a surprise because when she asked her mother and her relatives about it, they said that she never knew the art of making a dreamcatcher and so they thought it must be a skill she picked while she was travelling or when she went for an immersion.

"This one...I made this a long time ago I don't anymore remember the inspiration of it," She lied. She knew she was the one who made such a dreamcatcher even when she had not memory of making it because the details and the threading was identical to her other works. However, she really had no memory of making one and she can't just reveal such to Juan Long. The thing was, the dreamcatcher she made was as chaotic and controversial as her life, so as much as possible, she didn't want anyone to ask or pick an interest in it. This was the very reason she made the website anonymous.

"I won't force you if you don't want to talk about it Miss Garza," Juan long gave up asking questions as it seemed the girl was hesitant and he couldn't really demand it because that was not the main reason why he was here.

"Truth was, as I told you, the diamond prince seemed to have been interested in this dreamcatcher," Juan Long revealed. "So the very reason why I am here was to buy this from you,"

"What?" Crescent's shock went big at that. Immediately she asked. "How much?"

"Name your price," Juan Long told her, and for a moment the girl's world came to a stop. Did she just hear it right? The prince would like to have her dreamcatcher and would pay whatever amount just to have it?

"If I say five million, would you have it?" The girl attempted to offer a price for it even when she knew five million was too much of a price. Indeed, just as Juan Long heard it, he seemed to have been lost for words.