Festive Winter Mood

As it was now winter the lake behind the palace began to slowly but surely ice over, and as it did the first snow of winter fell. The entire city was covered in a light layer of snow. Due to the snow and cold the city began to have a festive air to it. The fact that the city was absolutely safe complemented this and everyone seemed to be closer to eachother.

Daedalus was currently sat by the fireplace in a big and soft chair reading a story book to the twins and Richard who sat on the fluffy rug just in front of the fire. The story was an adventure to reclaim a dwarven kingdom under a mountain, that was taken from them by a great and powerful fire drake. Richard seemed to have a weird light in his eyes as the story went on so Daedalus eventually asked.

"Well, um, the story sounds exactly like a story I already read." Richard chuckled. Daedalus chuckled lightly as well and said "Well this story is based off of a real event from long long ago. I believe 'the Shire' that was mentioned would be from when the dark and light shire regions where still one five hundred thousand years ago. Though I am not sure where the mountain was, I think it may have been destroyed though."

To say Richard looked shocked would be an understatement, but Daedalus didn't mind him and simply went back to the story. As he went on and the hours passed by, it soon became dark and the twins began to nod off. Andromeda who had been busy all day finally returned only to see the twins falling asleep in a cute manner while Daedalus read to them.

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A few minutes later the twins could be seen asleep in their beds, Richard was in another room though similarly asleep. After getting the kids to sleep Daedalus took his time and walked with Andromeda back to the living room. When they arrived Daedalus sat back down in his chair and opened up a different book.

The book he was reading was called the book of laws. In essence it was a book with basic information and descriptions of all known laws from several different perspectives. Daedalus had been reading it lately as he felt it would be beneficial to his future, let alone that it was quite enjoyable to read.

Andromeda, herself was sitting on the chair opposite him reading a book detailing the elemental laws. She had started doing this after she was told by Daedalus why he was reading the book of laws. She however focused only on the elemental laws as she found she was far more interested in them.

And so they sat in silence simply enjoying eachother's presence while they read their books. A few hours later Daedalus stretched and lay down on the sofa in the middle of the two chairs. Andromeda saw this and joined him to cuddle on the warm sofa in front of the fire.