Somehow I raised a prince

Chapter 2

So here is the second part and I hope you enjoy it, even though it has only 2 parts now
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"Adele!" 'girl flinches'
The girl sprang to her feet at the sound of a screech and mopped.

She was so tired that she rested to straightened her legs for a while.

"Are you still mopping?! I'd have been faster than you!"
A fierce-looking aunt opened the kitchen door roughly, holding buckets in both hands. 'slam kick'

"When you're done mopping, pick out everything here! If you don't finish it before lunch, there's no lunch today!" the angry aunt than walked away. 'stomp stomp stomp'

Adele was tired of work and has not yet finished mopping the kitchen floor.

She kept the egg in the hole of the oak tree until early this morning. The egg, which had been shaking little by little all night, cracked very slightly at dawn.

She knew it was about to hatched and ready to be born, but she couldn't be there any more when she has this amount of work to do.

It was clear that her aunt would come to find her if she didn't go back home before dawn, then the egg would have been caught.

As soon as she changed her wet clothes, she left the large egg hidden and started working at home.

Fetching water from the well, preparing breakfast, feeding chickens and ducks, then carrying hay to feed the cattle at the ranch into the cart, then returning home and mopping.

The cows had hay and the rest of the family had breakfast, but Adele had not yet sat down at the table.
This is how it is every day, and now she doesn't want to sit at the table and have breakfast with other family members.

Adele, who had moped the floor when her aunt left the kitchen, slightly checked what was in the bucket.

"Ah..."

It was different kinds of beans that filled the two buckets.
Beans are mixed with hay and used as cattle food.

Among the beans in the bucket, the round-shaped ones are selected separately for people to eat, and the crushed and shabby beans are given to the cattle. It'll take three hours to pick out all of these.

"Ha..." Adele sighed.

But it was clear that if she didn't finish this, she'd be out of the house in the evening.

Adele, who washed her hands, put a bucket on the table and began to pick out the beans. Her fingers were picking beans, but her mind was on the oak tree.

(Did the baby bird hatched by now?)
When she crawled out of the tree just before dawn, the egg was gradually cracking.

(Is it fully awake now? If it woke up from the egg, how would I dry the wet wings? ...)

When a duck is born, a mother duck dries its wet wings. But the egg in the hole in the oak tree has no mother bird.

(It must be a big bird, right?)

She had a lot of questions swirling in her head.

"Will it be like an eagle? Or a hawk..."

She has never seen an eagle but she did saw an hawk before. The hawk is huge, but the eagle is bigger.
If the eagle really comes out, wouldn't it bite her?

When in the orphanage, the eagle in the main fairy tale book had a large sharp beak.

(It must hurt a lot if it peck at me. ... What if it wake up and there's no one there and start to cry?)
Adele was worried about the eggs and forgot that she skipped breakfast.