Chapter Four: The Search for Allies

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 That night Anatolya and Taner met in Anatolya's room, and discussed their revenge with the only two trustable servants in the mansion, the butler Hands, and maid May. As Hands and May listened to their masters they both thought that they were missing an important part of the plan.

 May was the first to speak up, "Miss Anatolya, Mr. Taner, I hope I am not being rude, but I believe you are missing an important part of the plan," Hands nodded, agreeing with his wife. "What's missing?" Anatolya asked curiously. "Well..." Hands continued on, and told the siblings what they thought was missing.

 A few days later the siblings were waiting for the maids and butlers to pack their stuff into the luxurious white carriage that had the Viscount's symbol, a Cockatiel. The carriage was going to head to the Earl Busch's mansion. A couple days prior, following Hands and Mays advice they sent a notice to Earl's Family to tell them that they were visiting for a couple of days. As soon as the maids finished loading everything into the carriage the siblings left with Hands driving the carriage and May on the back of the carriage.

 Half a day later, the four of them arrived at the Earl's mansion. Hands helping the siblings out of the carriage and helping May off the back, they went up to the gate. At the gate was the Earl's family waiting for them, consisting of the family of seven, Earl Busch, Countess Busch, Only Son of the Earl, Aijo* Busch, First Daughter of the Earl, Haine Aya Busch, Second Daughter of the Earl, Hanna* Reia* Busch, Third Daughter of the Earl, Heather Busch, and the Fourth Daughter of the Earl, Hinata* Busch. 

 The Earl, the first born, Aijo and the second born, Haine having the signature red hair and round red eyes of the Earl's family. The Countess being born from a family of a Baron had black hair and sharp navy eyes. Resulting the fact that the third born, Hanna and the fourth born, Heather having black hair and navy eyes. The fifth born, Hinata was the combination of the two parents with red hair and navy eyes. 

 The Earl, Aijo, and Haine had pants on while the rest of the family had a dress on. Anatolya wondered for a moment as to why Haine didn't put on a dress instead of wearing pants and a collared shirt. But it wasn't Anatolya's issue if her reputation went down, so she brushed it off.

 Aijo took after the earl completely, looking like the Earl when he was younger, slightly tan with round soft eyes and slightly poufy hair. Haine's hair and eye color being the same as the Earl but her hair being only very little poufy but rather, more flat along with sharp red eyes and pale skin. Hanna, the third born was slightly tan and had flat black hair with round navy eyes. Heather looked just like her mother when she was younger, perfectly straight and flat hair with sharp navy blue eyes with pale skin. Hinata, the fifth born, was a obvious mixture of the two, having just barely tan skin with flat red hair and round navy eyes.

 Anatolya and Taner bowed and said, "I greet the Earl's Family". Hands and May already were bowing so as soon as the head of the Busch Family said to look up, they looked up and straightened their posture. So did the siblings.

 "Thank you for letting us stay at your manor for- '', as Anatolya was speaking she was cut off by the Earl. "No, thank you for coming here and visiting during such hard times. Please come in". Anatolya continued the conversation with the Earl for a while in the living room.

 The next day, Anatolya got up early and properly got dressed with the help of May. Anatolya was going to make allies or friends that would support her at least, for when she goes to get revenge against the Emperor's most favored Mistress, Uliana Donalson. As Anatolya was walking through the halls she spotted the first daughter of the Earl, seemingly looking drunk and reeked of alcohol. Anatolya cringed and tried to walk past her as quick as possible but to her surprise, the second born of the Earl's family spoke to her first,

 "Are you here to make allies for your so-called 'revenge'?", the second born asked.

 Anatolya instantly turned around and cautiously asked her, "How did you know?"

 She laughed.

 "Of course I would know! The only reason you would ever come here is to either get physical help with your revenge or get support from us for your revenge. The reason why I know? It's because you were mumbling so much about it at the funeral. It wouldn't make sense if you came for any other reason."

 "It seems you found out." Anatolya regained her posture and asked, "Since you know, would you like to be my ally?"


*Aijo - A Japanese name (I jo) Hiragana: あいじょう Katakana: アイジョウ Kanji: 愛情

*Hanna - A Japanese name (ha a na) Hiragana: はんな Katakana: ハンナ Kanji: 阪奈 

*Reia - A name from the United Kingdom (ray a)

*Hinata - A Japanese name (he na ta) Hiragana: ひなた Katakana: ヒナタ Kanji: 日向

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