She nods. "Make sure you'll sleep early tonight so that 'll wake you up around 12:00 AM."
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Seraphine laid on her bed that night. Her mind is still wandering about what Aunt Yve spoke earlier. She had been tossing and turning on her bed. Her eyes could only go towards the direction of the clock on top of the wooden nightstand beside her bed. All she could hear was: tick, tick, and tick, and it would always be a minute difference. Her excitement contaminated her whole body, and all she could do now was get up from her bed and sit at the table across her bed.
She stared at the clear dark night sky with different luminous stars, shining across her stimulated face. Seraphine refocuses her gaze towards the moon which was now waving at her.
"The moon today is full," she thought.
As she continued to stare at the dead of night, she thought about Asherah from her story. She was not able to finish it due to how busy she was doing household chores. She looked at the book entitled "Neptune's Beloved" and thought about what happened to the next chapter of the story. Curious, she decided to read it in the middle of the night, using the night sky as her only source of light, but the moment she opened the book and read the page where she last left off, she had dozed off.
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"My, my! Where is Seraphine?" Yve muttered. She checked the timepiece beside her and saw that it was already 12:15 A.M. Seraphine was fifteen minutes late.
"Can't you just wake her up?" A voice in her head spoke to her.
"No! It's simply rude of me to come into her room."
"Didn't you say you'll wake her up?"
"Well, why didn't I think of that?"
"My, you probably need coffee."
It was obvious that Yve still couldn't get over the fact that she found and raised herself, a dragon. Though she was an ethereal witch, being able to find a dragon was new to her, and the excitement was still inside of her body.
"No, I don't need those beans inside of me." She looked behind her and a beast can be seen sleeping behind her which looked like a young dragon. "I need to research more about this unique specimen," Yve placed both hands under her chin. "How it appeared here in such a world, why it came here, and what is its purpose."
"But you can't focus if you're sleep deprived."
"I don't care. This creature is the first one of its kind to ever exist in today's world! I could gain new knowledge out of this one; I could get cash for this. We wouldn't have to live in poverty anymore! Our only source of food would no longer be the crops that we have grown. Imagine what our future would be like with this creature..."
She grabbed the papers that are filled with Yve's observation of the dragon and immediately took out her dip pen with an ink bottle which was a set that was given to her by a friend and hurriedly began to write.
Suddenly, she hears a knock on her door.
"A-ah! Who must that be during this hour?" Yve frantically spoke. "Yes, I'm coming!"
Yve opens the door slowly and sees Seraphine looking up at Yve, with tired guilty eyes.
"I'm late; I'm sorry," Seraphine looks down.
"No no... It's alright. Did you sleep? What's the time now? Let me go check..." Yve peeks at her worktable for the time, answering her own question. "Oh, you're forty-five minutes late but it's my fault Seraphine. I'm sorry for not waking you up earlier."
YOU ARE READING
Neptune's Beloved
خيال (فانتازيا)Once a pampered girl, who enjoyed luxuries, now has her life transformed after her father suddenly sends her off to her aunt. With her aunt, she was able to learn new things and strengthen relationships between the people in her household. (More soo...
