Fire and Ice

House Tour

Nova walked towards another small wooden door a little to the left of where we were standing.

The door was already half open when Nova reacted it. She opened the door all the way and entered, me right at her tale.

"This is the kitchen." The blonde said walking in, opening a kitchen drawer.

The kitchen was very small compared to the castle kitchen I was use too. Instead of all the noisy cooks and messy pot everywhere it was quiet and clean. It had a sink with five cupboards above and below it, stone counters and a candles randomly spread out to light the room.

I turn my attention back to Nova. She was standing in front of a small black furnace I didn't notice before.

Now she wore a red apron, standing above a big stew pot.

"Almost done." Nova mumbled looking down at her simmering concoction.

She stirred the pot a few times before placing the stew soup down and turning to me.

"As I said, this is the kitchen." She said gesturing across the room.
"You'll mostly see me in here since I'm the cook of this facility."

"I see." I said taking in everything before we moved on.

Nova glanced at the stew then said,
"I have a few minutes before I have to come back here so let's go to the next room."

I nodded and followed Nova out the door.

We walked up to another small oak door that was on the wall opposite of the entrance.

"This is the girls room." Nova said as we entered.

The room was about the same size as the kitchen but with a different set up.

There were two twin sized beds parallel to each other, separated, making one bed against the right wall and one on the left.

The left bed had white sheets, white pillow, and a purple wool blanket.
The right bed had, much like the other, a white pillow, white sheets, but an aqua blue blanket.

"Which one's yours?" I asked.

"Purple." Nova said walking to the center of the room. "Blue is Rosemary's."

I walked around the room looking at everything decorating the walls and furniture.

Between both of the nicely made beds was a small wardrobe, most likely used to store there clothing. A small night stand stood at the end of each bed covered with things like books, jewelry, and candles.

On the wall above Rosemary's bed was two large hooks holding up a Sheath concealing a silver sword.
But on the section of wall above the head of the bed was a framed painting.

I moved closer so I could see what it was a painting of.
The painting was of a small family of four, all with red hair except from the man in the picture. The wife, in what I assumed was a family picture, had long red hair and light hazel eyes like Rosemary and Reiki.

Could this painting be a picture of Rosemary's family?

"Nova, is this Rosemary's. . . ?"

"Family? Yes." Nova said moving next to me.

"That's Reiki." The blonde said pointing to the small red haired boy in the picture.
"And that's Rose." Now pointing to the shorter red haired girl.

"Who are they?" I asked getting more and more curious.

"The women is named Erza, the Mother and Jellal, the Father." She said pointing to the red haired women to the blue haired man.

"It looks like Reiki and Rosemary got more features from their Mother." I giggled.

"Yeah." Nova sighed, moving towards the door.

"Next room?" I said following her towards the exit.

"Yup, the boy's room." She said opening the door.

The both of us entered what looked like that last room on our tour. The door was only a few feet from our last one, still on the same wall.

Nova reached for the metal handle only to hear,
"No wait! You can't go in there!"

A leather gloves hand grabs the door handle before Nova.

"Reiki! What the. . .?" Nova began to say before The red haired teen cried,

"No no no no no. . . no. No entering this room."

"And why not?" The blonde young lady barked in a tone that clearly meant she was annoyed.

"It's uh. . .nothing?" Reiki said awkwardly rubbing the back of him neck.

"Nothing? Well if it's nothing then we can go in." Nova said continuing to reach for the handle.

"No!" Reiki uttered, now moving so his whole body was covering the door.

Nova growled impatiently.
"Reiki just move." A voice said from not to far away.

It was Gale who finally looked up from his book.

"No Gale, you understand. I can't let them in."
Reiki pleaded.

"Actually Reiki, it's just bad for you. Let the girls in." He looking to us with his dark red eyes.

"But-" The red haired teen began to say before Nova interjected.

She went up to Reiki until she was only an inch away from his face. She then violently whispered,
"If you don't move right now I won't be able to get back to the kitchen in time to save your dinner from burning. Move."

Reiki gulped nervously before nodding.
"Yes ma'am."

The door once again became clear and was opened by Nova.

"Oh my. . . " I chirped, looking around the room.