Chapter 176
The confidence in the Princess’s words had the Empress baffled for the girl not only seemed to be sure of her statements... Yet also delighted.
"Your dreams?... That is truly a surprise darling... If I remember correctly, did you not tell me those dreams had ceased completely some time ago?... I believe it was little before the Royal Spring Ball took place."
"Yes. They abruptly became dark and silent dreams. I have no recollection of any, unlike before."
"... I see... This dream must have been last night’s. What makes you so certain that Lady Marianne, The Ninth, is more special?... Besides her new Title of course."
"..." — Grinning to herself, the Princess who appeared more youthful in her joy reached for her teacup and announced, playfully enticing her Mother’s curiosity. — "I wonder~..."
"My! Jasmine, it ought to have been a nice dream for you to dare rise my interest in this way."
"... Mother... The dream did not... It did not show much as always... It is only that... Whilst dreaming, a feeling I seem to have forgotten yet yearned for was reminded... I am not sure what this is all about but..."
"... Jasmine?..." — The Empress, attentive to her only daughter, widened her eyes at the unexpected sight and, leaving her teacup aside, as Ingrid, the Princess’s Mother, She came to seat by her side, to rest her hand in the young girl’s shoulder. — "Darling... What in the world is it that you dreamed... that tears fall this easily now that you tell me this?"
The child was crying from the big impact the short peek in her dreams had shown her. From young, the girl had been blessed with marvellous dreams of magical places she had never been to in her life.
Beautiful sights of flowers and lights, shy and lovely giggles, fluttering nature and leaves surrounding her.
Drought lands that bloomed streams in later dreams and meadows that seemed to welcome her in those dreams with elated dances of the flora... almost celebrating... Almost as if communicating...
Yet, last night’s dream did not exhibit any of that. Only a tiny second had been kept for her to recall.