Book 9: Chapter 3
Lucia looked at me feeling slightly puzzled, “Your Highness, do you have time today?”
I nodded, “Lucia, come for a walk with me, just the two of us. Nier has to go for a check-up today. We haven’t gone out together in a long time, have we?”
Lucia paused for a moment then revealed a happy smile. She wrapped her arm around mine and replied, “Okay, okay, let’s go. Your Highness, let’s go out for a walk! I haven’t taken a good look around Troy City, yet. Let’s go, let’s go, Your Highness! Ah… Sorry… I might have to call you King soon…”
I pinched her face. Lucia giggled quietly then hugged my arm. We left together.
Lucia and I have been apart for a long time.
‘How long has it been since we’ve gone out to play?’
‘I remember going out every day on carefree strolls with Lucia when I just arrived here. I’d meet Mera, too. Thinking back on it, it feels as though those days of leisure never existed.’
The streets of Troy City are very similar to the Imperial Capital. Perhaps Vyvyan used her Imperial Capital as a reference when she created them. This business street made us feel as though we had returned to the elven Imperial Capital, Durgana. Lucia scanned the surrounding stores with lots of curiosity; she breathed in the sweet air as the two of us slowly walked through the street. We didn’t have any goal. We leave our next destination to where our feet bring us, just as we did in the past.
“Your Highness…”