A tragic fabula

7

So that was him.
The grand duke of Newsburgh.

Barrey Wilhelmson Newsburgh.

Zepyhra's father.
Another noble man in this monarchy.

"He's with His Highness", said Marriel.
"With His Highness?"

This man sitting right in front of me could be someone important to the emperor.

He had dark blue eyes, shining in the sun light.
Giving off a lovely smile, as if he wanted to tell me something.
He had the same hair colour as Zephyra had.
fuzzy hair almost covering his eye sight.
Someone in his late fifties.

To his right, there was a boy, maybe thirteen or fourteen years old.

That must be Zack Newsburgh, Zephyra's younger brother.

His eyes resembled the duke's. His hair lighter than Zephyra's.

As we locked eyes, he blushed.

He seemed like he wanted to say something, but couldn't bring himself to do it.

To the left of the duke, there was another male.
He surely was a young adult, just in his twenties.
Darker blond hair, dark blue eyes.
I noticed how his gaze remained over me.
As I looked at him, he gave off an annoying "tch".

I gave off a weird smile, obviously trying to hide my concerns and the awkwardness I felt from this situation.

Penin, Zack, Barrey...
Where is the mother?

I sat down exactly in front of the grand duke.
The plates were ready, just the dishes were not there yet.

"Tell me, today you seem pretty happy. Did something good happen?"

I looked around just to meet the eyes of the duke.
He was talking to me.

"The weather seems really good. Is it something to be concerned of?", I asked giving a closed eye smile.

Of course I'm not happy.

Trapped in this novel for I don't know how long.

I'm not even your daughter.

Neither do I know her, nor you all.

I know almost nothing of this world.
Nor do you know me.

Just strangers sitting for breakfast, acting like a family.

I'm almost breaking down, but here I am, acting like noble, not having the slightest idea of myself and what awaits me in the near future.

"No, but normally you wouldn't be that happy to sit and eat with us."

I could feel the glaring from the left side.

Seriously what's up with him?
Was Zephyra not on good terms with him?

"W-Well I'm happy about it... We haven't seen each other for months, older sister.", Zack said loudly enough so that everyone could hear it.
As I looked over him, he again turned away, blushing.

How cute.

Now I had to think of Luca and the boy I met on the road. I gave off a smile at the similarity of them.
As if my smile was his trigger, Penin's glare got intense.

"Choose at least one face", he muttered.

He purposely said it into my direction, so that the duke couldn't hear it.
I could feel how my eyebrow twitched.
I almost wanted to confront him, but the duke interrupted.