Chapter 84: Quiet night
"Do you know how to fish?" Laura asked as she pulled two fishing poles from her inventory.
"I’ve only done it twice, but I guess so."
"Haha, good. Then let’s go fishing. It’s nice to eat the delicious things in the city always, but you don’t really enjoy the adventure if when you go out, you don’t eat of what the world gives you." She said, rather cheerfully.
Somehow, it made sense. So he nodded and grabbed the other fishing pole.
Then they rigged up some baits, set them, and cast them into the river.
Fish were still looking for food, so it would surely be a good fish hunt.
"Do you like adventures?" she asked suddenly.
"Quite a bit, yes. I’m not used to having them, though."
"Haha, I suppose that makes sense. Being a Habsburg, you must have a lot of enemies out there, overseas."
He gave her a sidelong glance and sighed.
"To tell you the truth, I don’t know too much about my family’s history. When it happened that night, I was in arms and had to be smuggled out of the empire. I grew up and lived my whole life wondering about my parents, as I was raised by an old woman of days, who claimed to be a maid in my family. But she never wanted to tell me the back story."
"Oh." She looked at him. "How did you learn the story?"