Chapter 63: November in the Northern Regions (1)
[It's already been 90 days since the Grand Ducal Betrothal ended.
Today I heard the most interesting tale about Elden Raphelion. They say that he saved a child and his mother from a merciless assault by her husband.
When questioned by the guards, Elden said something like this - ‛The Vilest people in the world are those who assault women and children’. Back in the Academy, he had also said something similar.
One time, when I asked him why he never joined the others in torturing me, Elden said he had no interest in the 'weak'. Never in my wildest dreams would I have imagined that Elden, the same man that disdained the weak, would put himself in harm's way for them. He had always been, after all, a bystander to their suffering.
I also heard many ladies were making a fuss about how 'cool' and 'dashing' Elden had been as he revealed his identity by removing his hood at the child's query.
I wonder, what does he look like now? Is he still acting like a new man? Didn't he say he would stop living like a 'bystander' after the Betrothal ended?
But, unlike him, I'm becoming endlessly miserable and weak with each passing day.
Oh, how mighty and extraordinary are you now Elden?
Overtaken by my curiosity, I tried to imagine what he would look like, but I couldn't. My mind couldn't imagine such a dazzling figure any longer.
I also heard he was still searching for chefs capable of cooking monster meat. Perhaps my cooking might have sparked a new taste in Elden? That...would have been a good fantasy.
A vain one, but good nonetheless.