Book 3: Chapter 4: Hiltiya's Goal
In the morning, Sylutia was the first to wake up. She thought she was someone who liked to sleep in and disliked waking up early, but after living with her two roommates, she discovered that Lovier was even more of a sleeper. Although Aurora also woke up after she started moving, she soon pulled the corner of her blanket back up and continued hiding under the covers to sleep.
Huh? Could it be that I'm actually quite diligent? Sylutia slowly sat up, carefully extricated herself from the blanket without disturbing the other two, then went to the foot of the bed, found her slippers, and put them on.
Perhaps because she slept quite well last night, she wasn't sleepy at all now. After going to the bathroom to wash up, Sylutia changed into relatively warm black long cotton socks, then into a relatively simple but still gold-trimmed dress. It was predominantly black in tone. For warmth in autumn and winter, the originally bare-shoulder part was now covered by a chest-length shawl, protecting the chest, shoulders, and back. A small golden badge was pinned at the collar, stamped with a black griffin.
'Griffin' meant 'griffin' in the ancient language. Sylutia didn't know how Alanfude had found some glorious bloodline ancestor of his and then used this as his family name to flaunt a long history.
Fortunately, there was currently no well-known major family using the 'griffin' as their family emblem, so no one criticized his thin-blooded collateral branch for reviving this surname. In fact, many newly rising families or wealthy individuals would spend a large sum of money to have scholars help them find a famous-sounding ancestor to flaunt. Such things were not uncommon in the Merchant Capital Alliance.
After getting dressed, Sylutia left the dormitory and came to the main street outside. The time was around eight in the morning. The morning sun shone obliquely, and there weren't many pedestrians on the street; most were students carrying schoolbags, heading to school for class.
She walked along the street for a while, found an open bakery, bought several portions of hot bread and pastries, then wrapped them in a paper bag and brought them back to the dormitory building.
When she returned, Aurora was already up. Although much later than Sylutia, she had already washed her face and was starting to comb her hair.
"Is Lovier still not up?" Sylutia placed the bread on the table and asked.