Chapter 488 - 39. Pure Love (Two-in-One)
Dressed in a Northern Realm attire, Alagina walked briskly along the bustling commercial streets of Patulshen Island. It was afternoon, and the sun above was dispersing sunlight, scattered by clouds or the contours of buildings, leaving only speckled islands of light that fragmented and transformed into stars upon the ground.
Although the temperature was just right at the time, and the atmosphere was warm, the further Alagina walked, the colder she felt, as if she had suddenly returned to the gardens behind her mother’s palace from over a decade ago.
There, the vibrant sunlight of the moment turned into the snow-filled sky of the Northern Realm, and the thin islands of light on the ground seemed to thicken abruptly, becoming heavy snow that just submerged the middle of Alagina’s calves.
Alagina, taller than most men, seemed to suddenly shrink at that moment, turning into the five-year-old girl she was, dressed in cotton, her little face slightly red.
"Father!"
In the vast courtyard of the Feudal King’s palace, her frail call traveled far, blowing the continuously falling snowflakes in the courtyard and making them sway. The surrounding lake and trees, covered in frost, did not respond with their own mouths, so she could only catch her breath as she ran deeper into the courtyard.
She knew her father was not fond of staying in her mother’s bedroom and particularly loved to be alone in the depths of the garden without attendants.
Whenever little Alagina woke from her naps or escaped from her heavy studies and combat training, she would always seek out her father’s figure like a timid boy.
At the time, the Northern Realm winter weather was unusually cold, as if the Frost Phoenix was enraged and wanted to punish the North Realm people for their sins, and within the Sardinia Female Country, it snowed heavily, a rarity in a century.
Young Alagina, despite the palace waiters’ dissuasion, ran breathlessly and alone towards the deeper parts of the courtyard to find her father.