village girl › nct 2018

07

        MIN JAEYOUNG。

"heraphany," our teacher, mrs. wang, stated as she wrote the word on the whiteboard, "can anyone tell me the meaning of our land's name and it's origins."

i was about to raise my hand when someone beat me to it, "the word hera, was derived from our land's queen, queen hera. the word phany was derived from the word, epiphany. it means that the remaining soldiers and citizens of our land, in honor of our queen's death, it was to show realization and respect towards queen hera's hard work and her sacrifices to our land." one of our classmates stated.

mrs. wang looked at him with a proud smile, "very good! he's right."

"queen hera divided our land into five districts. can anyone name those districts?"

i quickly raised my hand, eager to answer her question, she looked at me and gave me a nod, i stood up, "the first district is valfield, the second is our district which is heflorescence, the third is silvercoast, the fourth is falconholt and fifth is laencaster."

"i assume all of you must did your research yesterday," mrs. wang uttered and placed both of her hands on her table. "valfield, with the 'val' derived from the word valiant or valiancy, as said in the tales and legends, valfield was where queen hera usually stayed, the white castle in valfield is probably more sacred than anything as queen hera used to live in that castle."

"it is the home of the brave and courageous, where most of hera's old soldiers are staying. the biggest training base is also held in valfield."

"moving on to heflorescence, your district, the famous quote says it all." mrs. wang told us.

"as the moon and sun shine, a fighter will rise." miyeon said, slowly as she stared at her painted nails. i looked at her in shock, i certainly didn't expect her to say that after how much hate she has for history.

"what?" miyeon looked up, "my dad tell's me that everyday, i have to at least share my knowledge." she shrugs as the teacher chuckles, "well, ms. jung is correct, the 'he' comes from the queen's name hera. the florescence came from the word efflorescence, which means flowering or blooming." mrs. wang said.

"all you are very familiar during the season of autumn, where efflorescence usually happens, most people confuse it with spring, but no, efflorescence happens before winter starts. it would be really unusual as blooming of flowers tends to happen during spring time." mrs. wang stated, pointing her stick around the classroom.

"the next district, silvercoast, was named as silver, referring to the usual seen color of a fish and coast meaning coastal area. silvercoast deals with our trading and where most harvest crops are from." mrs. wang clasped her hands together, "now, is anyone from the falconholt district?" she questioned.

one of our classmates raised her hand, she stood up and looked at us with a confident look plastered on her face. "would you mind telling us about district four, dear?" mrs. wang gazed at our classmate as she smiled, nodding.

"falconholt is named after the bird, falcon. in falconholt, we, too, have our quote; 'like a falcon we will soar high and defend our land'. great snipers, archers and aircrafts were built in our district." she said proudly as i looked at her in awe, i didn't even know which district i was born, it was hard to be proud that i am born in the blooming district as i was only found in someone's doorstep.

mrs. wang turned the pages of her book as she smiled again, "last but not least! laencaster!" she exclaims, i'm assuming that she's from laencaster, seeing how excited she looks. "i'm usually from laencaster, and i moved here to pursue my dream in becoming a teacher." she told us as i clicked my tongue, knew it.