Marianne von Edmund, a student at the Officers' Academy, has had to flee with all her classmates, after the invasion of the Garrech Mach Officers' Academy by the Adrestian Empire, led by its new Empress, Edelgard von Hresvelg.
On her way home, and a...
As Marianne remembered, the landscape seemed to be the same as always along that road that linked Goibniu with Scáthach, except for the soldiers and troops hanging around and preventing the streets from being devastated by bandits and savages. And it is that back then, things on the continent of Fódlan would not be the same for a long time after the fall of Garreg Mach at the hands of the imperial forces under the rule of his new empress.
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Marianne von Edmund is the adoptive daughter of the Marquess of Edmund. This nobleman lives in and administers the northernmost territories of the Leicester Alliance coast, a league made up of different nobles who administer their domains and resist living under the control of some empire or kingdom.
She participated for a year at the Academy within the class of the Golden Deer. This was until the Empire occupied Garreg Mach, aiming to overthrow the Church and ending the system in which the nobility was at the pinnacle of society on the continent.
Marianne was a relatively private woman. She was trying to avoid contact with other people, due to his father's request, so as not to spread his actual origin for any reason and Crest that he possessed: Maurice's Crest, which has long been associated with a terrible beast that brings misfortune to the people she approaches.
Her appearance was that of a girl with pale skin, beautiful but expressionless brown eyes, light blue hair, and a graceful and attractive figure. She was wearing a light and dark blue dress, a beautiful combination of her hair and skin color.
"I never expected this from Edelgard. I hope the Goddess takes pity on her," Marianne thought as she continued to see the landscape inside the carriage that would take her to her adoptive father's lands.
Once there, they should discuss issues about interrupting their studies due to the political crisis and analyze options to make future "agreements." Nuptial agreements, with a clear purpose of politics and convenient influence for his adoptive father, who sought to climb his social scale and power in the Alliance.
Marianne continued to look at the landscape, resigned. There wasn't much to do about his destination; If someone accepted her for who she was and with her "condition" present, she didn't care, even though her father strictly prohibited her from talking about it.
So, everything was going relatively quiet on the way home. At a certain point, the carriage stopped. Some soldiers stopped the coachman. Marianne listened as they talked.
"Mister, we need to control where the carriage is coming from, its occupants, and where they are going. You'll understand that this is just a routine check," said the soldier in charge of the crew.
Marianne couldn't hear anything else, but she found that the time for a "routine check" was taking longer than necessary. After a while, she heard a noise and the neighing of one of the horses. She decided, stealthily, to look outside. The fright that he took was terrible. Both the coachman and the horses were being slaughtered.
