The Ganut

Episode 9: The Queen Regent's Servant

The carriage had arrived in front of their house. While Mary thanked Jérel, Garuk saw someone leaving their house and fleeing aboard a carriage. He shouted "Mom, there is someone who has just left the house and runs away from a horse-drawn carriage. " . Automatically, Jérel and Mary went to the house to see if his sister and the baby were well. They hurriedly opened the door that squeaked with a dry noise and fell on Melva:

- Is everything all right? We saw someone coming out of the house while fleeing.

- Yes Mary, I'm fine don't worry. (she says with a smile)

- Don't tell me that he's the young man in the carriage. So you two are serious (laughs)

- Enough to talk about me, but I say that you are well accompanied (she says while looking at Jérel)

Jérel being reassured that there was no danger, asked to leave and thanked Mary for the evening who thanked him in return. After Jérel left, Mary put her little bag on the table and began to explain the evening as her sister had expressly asked her. She made her hear that the nobles are the greatest followers of gossip and that she had even heard during one of her conversations between Jerel and Paul that a palace employee had been found dead near a tavern not far from here. Before continuing her discussion, Mary asked Garuk to go to bed because there was class tomorrow at the academy. Garouk did not roar and went to his room he still had in mind the good times he had spent tonight. As Mary reached the end of her story about her evening, she saw her reflection in the mirror that Jadik had brought back from his last trip. The smile on her face faded and then gave way to sadness and guilt. She felt guilty for being happy again. Melva, who saw tears begin to come out of her sister's eyes, wanted to find out the reason for this sudden change of emotions. She looked behind her and saw the mirror. She had understood what was happening. So she comforted her sister and accompanied her to her room.

After entering his room, Garuk removed his clothes and then first put them in the wardrobe on the right side of his bed. Then suddenly, as he was about to put on his nightdress, he glanced at the clothes he had just put away. He sketched a slight smile and remembered the moments of that evening when for the first time he felt his heart capsize while addressing a girl. He remembers every word they exchanged and every facial expression of Makissi. So he decided not to put away the clothes of this evening with the others. So, crouchs down, reaches out under his bed, and pulls out his personal chest. He opens the trunk and puts the clothes in it. Except that when he closed it, he saw a compass. He grabbed the compass and leaned against the edge of his bed. A few tears escaped from his eyes. This compass is a gift he received from his father on a commercial sea trip. He remembered his beautiful moments he had spent with his father that day. He got up and without putting away the compass, he put the trunk back in its place. While he was putting on his nightdress, he remembered the last words his father had said to him in the public square on the day of the designation: "You must live! ". So he wiped his tears and went to bed in the hope of finding sleep after these mixed emotions of this night.

Lorentz and his sister had arrived at their house a little earlier in the night. He was sitting in the living room and was at the idea that his sister was going to join the "public" academy the next morning. His mind refused the idea that his sister might no longer be able to find a good noble party and that maybe he could. But he immediately changed his mind because no nobleman would dare to bet his daughter's future on him. Added to this, his fortune is not enough to try to get in the noble crew like Savel, and the dowry are now raised especially for noble girls. He sat thinking about his problems until he fell asleep on the kitchen table.

At the palace, Caesar got up in the night and quietly reached his wife's quarters. Since Demek's death, he had not yet shared his wife's bed and thought that this morning would be the ideal time to surprise her and rekindle the flame within the couple. He entered her room and couldn't find her there. Curious, he equipped himself with a lantern and then went to the servants' compartment. He met the "woman in charge" who was doing the last checks. So he asked her to bring Frida, the personal servant from Bali. The woman in charge, astonished by the request of her highness, lowered her head politely and let her know that Frida had been found dead near a tavern the day before the coronation. Caesar therefore offered her his condolences and wanted to know if she had an idea of where his wife could be. The latter nodded horizontally to deny any information but she trembled with fear: