Chapter 24: Thoughts
All of this happened in a span of a few hours, meanwhile, the Marquess slept blissfully unaware of the fact that his children snuck out, knocked out a woman, escaped the guards and kidnapped a child!
Upon Alaric’s requests, most of the guards stayed quiet and didn’t alarm the Marquess. Of course, they didn’t want to wake up the Marquess and tell him his children brought back a stowaway. Still, it was just a way to delay the inevitable.
"Linny, who is this?!" The Marquess could not believe what he was seeing! Just what did his daughter do?!
"Linny, who is this boy?! You cannot cry your way out of this, young lady. Explain." He repeated with a louder voice.
’Damn it.’ Her cuteness isn’t working anymore! Her father is demanding answers, where should she even begin?
On the way home Dimitri and Adeline fell asleep. Dimitri’s head leaned on Alaric’s shoulders while Adeline made herself comfortable on Aaron’s lap. Eventually, Aaron fell asleep too, he leaned against the window of the carriage. The only one awake was Alaric. He was still processing what happened.
Adeline revealed that she had healing powers and roped him into rescuing this young boy. Rescuing him wasn’t on his mind, it was the least of his worries. The main problem was Adeline’s healing powers.
Such an incident never occurred before. No one discovered that they had healing powers later in life because the Holy Temple’s test had 100% accuracy.
The children of aristocracy born with healing powers are given away to the temple, if the families had the chance to establish a connection with the holy temple, they would obviously take it. Other than the royal family, the temple had the most influence over the empire.