The Grey Storm

23

The Lion's birthday
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Isamiona turn her head as her prayers was interrupted. "Lady Rosemary?" Hyo timidly walked onto the balcony, "Sorry, I didn't mean to interrupted. I. . ."

"What's wrong?" Isamiona counted her praying beads, "Your Father took all the boys to breakfast for his birthday, it's just us three girls." trying to sound cheery, but was clearly bothered. Sighing heavily as she nodded her head at a spot opposite her. "Sit," Hyo followed and kneeled opposite Isamiona, crossing her leg under her bottom. Memorised by the view of the Royal suite, it had the view of the desert in the sunrise. Understanding why Isamiona like it here, "See this fire? Throw this hay and watch it turn into a different colour,"

Handing some hay to Hyo showing how to do it, "What does it to?" watching the blue flames turn red, Isamiona hummed weaving her hands over it. "Tells the story of your soul, each colour shown has a meaning."

"What does red mean?" Hyo sounded interested, Isamiona looked at the red fire. "It means fierce, fertility and inner strength that no one knows. Mothers are prone to have red, very passionate with motherhood." Hyo smiled at how Isamiona is relating her to all those, "But Red also means: Agserisa,"

"Acc-Act- Accesses?" Hyo horribly tried to pronounce it, causing Isamiona to grin slightly. "Ag-ser-isa," Isamiona repeated slowly, placing the praying beads on her prayer book elegantly before closing it. "It's the Mythical creature, it means ‘The Fire Red Fox’. Not like the K-drama, ‘Nine tailed fox’. Agserisa, is a being who protects and is Guardian who it is assign to. It can be any gender when humanised, it's main passion is motherhood. Mothers in Malagarian culture give blessings to it, there's many stories on it." Isamiona added as she made a teardrop shape around the fire as the smoke turned into a tiny fox with three tails, running after pup versions of itself.

"What is your soul colour?" Isamiona didn't answer, but threw the blue hay in it as it turned blue. "Blue," throwing hay as the fire had a blue transition dimming the red smoke, in amazed Hyo watched. "What does blue mean?"

"It means calmness, calm in a sense of after the storm there's calamity to either create more a storm of chaos or an icy wrath. It's one of the characteristics of Naarcos. Spirit Phoenix who watches over everything with calm eyes,"

"And Iseul?"

"Grey, it actually suits his name. Iseul in Korean means 'Dew'. But Malagar it means: 'the child that cried for more,'. Its a nursery rhyme, how does it go again?

"Little Iseul sat on a dew,
Wiping his swollen red eyes.
"More and More and More I want,"
He cried.

More and More and More as he desired.

Spoiled his little red heart.
Turning his insides Grey,
"More and More and More, you still desire?"

But Little Iseul,
All he could do,
To feed his grey heart,
Was still cry for more."

Throwing black sand over the flames ending her prayers, Hyo got up dusting her long skirt. Isamiona was wearing a slim fit grey pants with a navy blue silk blouse putting on a matching grey trenchcoat, different to her black clothing that she usual wear. Hyo wanted to help Isamiona up yet the child passed her hand away, Hyo felt a bit sad but nodded understandingly.

"There's a nice café we can go to, it's the similar one in Incheon that I like to go. You'll like it," Isamiona said walking into her hotel suite room to see Seung-Hee rubbing her eyes with soft sniffles. "O-Oh, she's a bit upset that Father didn't invite her with," Isamiona narrowed her eyes and walked to the dressing table put on her watch on.