The Chronicle of Aurelia Aurelius

Chapter 37 The Publicity of Our Bethroral

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Tonight was the party in the palace...Yesterday was .Which I knew the truth all of what I had experienced, especially the transmutation...I didn't know I possessed that power for these entire years. When I asked Adel and Lady Octavi about teaching me the transmutation, they refused to become my mentor of it. Instead, they wanted me to learn it from my mother...Yet, they offered some willingful to teach me to hold swords. To learn it from my mother surely would be different.

Even though the party was in five hours, Adel was already doing some preparation for me...She took me to the bath, and was taking bath me, which I was always doing it alone, but this time she was doing it for me. After finished the bath, she brought me back to my room, to choose dress. I told Adel to choose dress where the colour was the opposite of the colour of the crown prince's dress. Then, she chose the black dress again, because the crown prince always wore white dress.

This was my first time attending a party, as I remembered. Yet, someone told me that I had attended a party; it was my debut party when I was twelve years old...Because it was my first time attending a party, I asked Lady Octavi to come beside me at the party.

I was surprised to find out, Lady Octavi didn't wear a dress or gown, instead she was wearing a man attire like a military uniform. Three hours before the party, she started to teach me about the manners in the party. She had taught me the basic manners, so it was . Next, she did a rehearsal of dance with me. Before we started the dance rehearsal, she told me,

"Let me become the lead of the dance, my lady.."

So we started the rehearsal; like she had said, she became the lead, and I just followed her steps...While we were dancing, she said,

"Your dress actually make you easy to move, my lady..."

We finished the rehearsal of dancing, and she said to me,

"The crown prince should be the lead of the dance, so my lady shouldn't worry about the dance...Just follow his steps..."

A few moments later, a knock on the door and the news could be heard: the crown prince had arrived...

I came to downstairs. In front of me, he immediately grabbed my hand, and show some affection into my hand with a kiss. I just let it, and I didn't see any other woman in his current entourage. When he met me seven years ago, he brought Lady Anna in his entourage.

"Shall we go there now, Aurelia?" He offered his hand for me to hold it.

I said "Sure.." I ignored his hand, which he wanted me to hold. I just walked toward the entrance,

In front of the house, there was the royal carriage with six men wearing full plates of mail and their horses around the carriage. I could see their blue robe behind them; it meant they were the blue order, like Milo. I went into the carriage. Fabian was sitting beside me, while Milo and Lady Octavi were in front of us. On the trip, I kept silent...There were no single words inside the carriage.

The carriage stopped, and a few seconds later, the door was opened by one of the guards..At once, Milo and Lady Octavi went out first, followed by Fabian. Again, Fabian wanted to show some affection towards me by lending his hand to me, and I was about to get off the carriage. I ignored his affection for me and just got off the carriage without any help. Especially, my dress was not so big like what I had worn seven years ago, when I was 15 years old, so it made it easy to move..

As I stepped out of the carriage, I was looking around; there was no other carriage in front of the palace. We walked inside the palace. We were walking with Fabian beside me, followed by Milo and Lady Octavi behind us, but there were the four guards from the six still escorting us inside the palace.