251 Friends…

[Agnes' POV: ]

They have been gone for a while now. What might be so urgent that Master Grandalff had to escort him to the headmaster's office himself?

"They are in trouble, aren't they?" 

They are always doing dangerous things and they were gone for three whole months. Of course they were in trouble right now. They are so careless!

"I don't think they would be in any kind of trouble, Agnes."

We all were on our usual benches by a tree in the garden as Princess Cathy patted my back and reassured me with a positive voice. And, I looked up at her.

"But… but you know how they are… how they are so careless and-"

"It will be fine, Miss Agnes. I think so as well. And I can say for certain it isn't about their absence for three months. if it were the case, the headmaster would have reacted the time they returned and were in the middle of the entire ceremony that happened earlier."

"Right.