(From Blue''s Perspective)


    That night, aftering back, I fell asleep right away. I was tired for some reason, even though I did not do much. My head hurt a bit as well. So, Dem massaged my forehead until I fell asleep.


    I told him that he did not need to do it since he needed rest as well. But he was adamant, just like always.


    A scene appeared before me. Unlike other times, I knew that it was a dream and that I was sleeping.


    A man wearing a blue long hooded cloak stood in the middle of a dark room lit only by a few candles. The light from the candles hurt my eyes a bit.


    "Father, she will note to us now. Neither she nor King Demetrius is nning to awaken her power fully. Now, that bastard duke of Ataraxia awakened her power partially. She can take pregnancy-preventing pills and for now, that''s all they want. But you still are rxed."


    I was surprised. I was talking, but the voice was not mine nor the words. It was like I was in someone else''s body, but could not do anything other than be like a spirit inside him. I could not do anything in this body. I could only see the things this person was seeing, look where the person was looking and move when the person was moving. It was like experiencing whatever he was experiencing.


    The man wearing a blue cloak chuckled and looked at me. "Do not worry, my son. She wille to me. We just have to be patient, that''s all," he said.


    "I can''t believe our n failed like that," the other person said. I was inside his body. It looked like this person was the son of the person in front of me. I could not see his face since he wore a mask that covered his facepletely except his eyes.


    "It is because her power was awakened a bit before she came to this world and married Demetrius," the father said. "I still don''t know who awakened her power that time. I suspect it was King Ford since he went to the other world and now, he is quite close to Blue."


    ''Is he stalking me? Creepy!''


    "King Ford has always been against us," the son said. "Does he think we will take his kingdom someday betraying him?"


    "He is not wrongpletely. He even killed his own mother... Now, we have to work harder since our ns failed. She is my daughter. I have an idea what she will do."


    ''He is my father? Then the other person is my brother or something?''


    "I don''t know how you are thinking that you have an idea about what she is thinking. I thought we will be thinking the same way since we are twins. But some of our thoughts are different, it seems. But we both have an extraordinary memory."


    ''What...? What is he saying? Twin? My twin? He is my twin brother? Then our parents are the same?


    And he also has that kind of memory just like me?''


    I wanted to hear more of what they were saying. I had no idea how I was seeing this, but I wanted to see more. It was like I was experiencing someone else''s life.


    But to my disappointment, I woke up before I could see or hear anything else. I woke up in a hurry, so my head started hurting.


    "Are you alright?" Dem asked. "What''s wrong? Did you have a bad dream?"


    "... It''s... It was a weird dream. I..."


    He quickly gave me a ss of water without asking anything. As I drank the water, he patted me on the back gently.


    "Have you calmed down a bit?"


    "Hmm... I actually... saw my father... my real father..."


    "In your dream? But you have never met him before," he said.


    "That''s right. It was like I was experiencing someone else''s life. I was seeing what he was seeing," I said. "I heard them talking. They were saying some surprising things... Let me tell you from the beginning."


    "So, it was a dark room. I mean, there were some candles there, but well, I don''t think they actually did much to the darkness. There was a man in the middle of the room. He was wearing a blue hooded cloak and a mask that covered his facepletely. I could see his eyes only. As I said, it was like I was in someone else''s body, but I could not do anything. New chapters at m v|le|mp|yr


    I was doing whatever that person was doing. Apparently, it seemed they were son and father. The person in front of me was his father."


    I told Dem exactly what happened in the dream. He listened as attentively as always. After I was finished, he did not say anything for a while as if thinking about something intently.


    "Your mother''s eye color- what is it?"


    "Dark brown," I replied.


    "And hair color?"


    "Red..."


    "And the man you think is your father and you saw in your dream has dark brown eyes. You could not see his hair because of the cloak. But you can''t have blue eyes out of nowhere, right?"


    "It''s possible scientifically... But if both parents have dark brown eyes, then it''s most likely that their children also will have brown eyes," I said.


    "It''s not just that. Remember what that bastard king of Trouvaille said? He said that the person who awakened his power had blue eyes and we were guessing that''s your father."


    "Is it possible to change eye color to your will if you are a mage?"


    "Yes," he nodded. "I think he changed his eye color. You said he was wearing a hooded cloak and a mask- it means he went somewhere and did not want anyone to even guess who he might be. I also think it''s not just a dream. It truly happened. If that guy is your twin brother, perhaps because of the ck mana, you two have a bond.


    Because your power is awakened more, you could use that bond unintentionally."


    "Mother never told me I have a twin brother... It was just me who was born that time, at least that is what I know..."


    "For now, I cannot say anything. I do not know anything about it after all. But I have a feeling that it''s true and the incident you saw today took ce in reality."


    Luc was right it seemed. He also guessed that the dark mage wanted me toe to them to awaken my power. In my dream, I heard the same thing.


    "I am sure of one thing now- King Ford was not lying to us," he said.


    "I believed him all the time though... I mean, I did not think of any reason for him to lie to us," I said.


    He eyed me as if I had said something wrong. "It hurts me a bit to hear you say that. Back then, you could not even believe me, but you believed him even though you had met him for the first time."


    "Ah, it''s not like that...," I said quickly. "I believed him because everything seemed a bit clear. But in your case, you were saying that you did not even know why you wanted me. It was confusing, Dem. If someone said that to you, you would not be able to believe that either."


    The dream or whatever it was confused me. And Dem was behaving oddly as well. I wondered if he was angry because I did not trust him when I trusted King Ford just after meeting him once. He should understand my situation. I wanted to trust him all that time, but I could not. And when I decided to trust him, I had already decided to let everything go and trust him even if he ended up betraying me.


    He did not talk to me much after that. He went to work and I slept some more while waiting for Luc toe. Luc said he was going to visit me here; I did not need to go to the magic tower.


    "Your Highness, did you and His Highness fight?" Ruby asked as she was organizing the books that I was reading these days while I was lying on the bed on my stomach cing my elbows on the pillow.


    "Why are you asking that?" I asked.


    "Well, His Highness is in a bad mood. He has been yelling at the beta and some other knights," she said. "He usually does that when he is in a bad mood."


    ''Really? Isn''t he overreacting now?''