Chapter 297
"What are you thinking, Marianne? You seem lost in thought." — The duke asked me as I did lower my head to consider about the Forest’s creatures.
[ I was thinking about the marching feathers. ]
"Hmm... Have they not appeared again? They should come to visit you soon. It even surprises me you’ve seen it twice in this short time, sweetie."
The duke had told me that what I had seen was called "Marching feathers" and he said it was an unusual sight this place gave to very few.
"My father only saw it once... And I have never seen it. Yet, my lovely child easily saw it twice on her first visit... Mmm~ This father is jealous."
’... Really?’
"... Maybe it is also because you are the Ninth." — He then told me as I blankly pondered about it. — "The pact Calla made... It was allowed by Fenrir and her guardian spirit. Being Calla’s Confidant already links you with a spirit’s existence."
Kindly with his hand, Marianne’s Father moved my long hair so it would stay behind my shoulder as I attentively listened.
"The spirits have a strong essence of nature. So perhaps those little feathered creatures can see your link with that guardian spirit that aided in choosing you."
What he said made sense. And I had also thought that such could be the case.
Right now he was telling me this since it made me depressed that I haven’t seen it in these last three days. Because...
’I want to draw it, mister... But they come and go so fast that it’s difficult to just focus.’