Hio, the author here... so ... yeah... Im sorry for the long looong wait, i have a lot of things going on here. I can only write while on the buss and to the school or... in the toilet and similar places.. so.. yeah. Oh! yeah! im starting to draw what the characters in my fiction looks like in my Faxlim's badly drawn art thread... i may or may not take drawing request later on when i have more free time. Well i hope you like this chapter :blush: sorry for the short chapters :s
CHAPTER 4 'Daily life'
Arthur had just woken up, it was still morning. He was sitting by the window waiting for the sun to rise, he did so every morning. Sitting by the window and just staring at the world outside till he had something to do.
He liked how calm it was, he enjoyed it while it lasted, knowing there were much to do and much to overcome in the future. Right now he had to train himself and soak in as much knowledge and experience as he could.
He spent most of his time in the library Isaac had built for him, he was very thankful to Isaac for building such big library. He thought 'Being born to a rich family really does make difference, in my previous life i wouldn't ever dream of living this relaxed life style.'
Arthur remembered how he stole and begged from people passing by just to get something to eat, as he got older he would work in some factories or work on building site and get paid meagerly pay, just enough to throw something down his throat.
One faithful day he got offer that would change his life. Well... we can talk about that some other time.
Right now he was in heaven, he had caring family he lived happily with, nothing to worry about. The only thing he worried about little bit was his and his families future, what trouble it held.
He knew he would meet with difficulties in future that he might not be able to handle, that was the reason why he was trying to learn and train his body as much as he could before anything happened.
Unknowingly to him, he was accumulating a lot of rumors around himself, from child with god given intellect to being with dark gift from the devil. They were nothing but rumors, no one outside the mansion were allowed to see him, the reason being. Normally the kids of high class are introduced to people outside for the first time would be on his or her 5th years coming party.
Where there would be a big celebration with many high class people of society.
Arthur knew that and he wanted to get on the good side of as many high class people as he could, in turn it would help him a lot in the future. Having connection is never a bad thing to have, more the merrier.
He would spend around 2 hour every day for the manners lesson, the ethics class was just like little test where they would see if the kid had any kind of sociopathic tendencies.
They would ask "Arthur what would you do if you saw injured little kitty on the ground?"
"If mother or Isaac allows me, i would help the little kitty"
"Okey, so Arthur what would you do if you..." and so on.
They didn't seem to have any problem with his answers and would nod their heads in response from time to time.
In the manners class they would tell him to straighten his back while walking and to not look down or stretch his head forward, to always greet the people you have met for the first time politely, how to talk with certain people and how to talk with the others and almost everything else.
He didn't mind, he needed to learn this world customs to not offend people and it was still fairly easy and didn't take much of his time from reading books and experimenting with little bit of magic from time to time.
The experiments he did were nothing major, he tried to get the feel of magic before anything else but kept it to the minimum.
From time to time only for slight seconds he could see what looked like strange colored smoke like thing but it was to bright and would blind him right after so he couldn't study about it that much.
Arthur didn't want to cause any unnecessary injuries with his experiments to his small body that would effect him for rest of his life and anyways he was going to learn under someone who has massive amount of knowledge in just 3 years, in mean time he would learn as much as he could that would help him a lot with his future and the studies under the Head of the Mages guild.
Unknowns to him, in one of the rooms in the mansion, there were two people talking with each other about him.
"Honey... why wont our son call me father? T_T"
"I guess its in the blood, darling"
"But... but, he could at least call me father once."
"I wonder why. He calls me mother and Lucy sister without any problem. I think because you are busy all the time and doesn't spend much time with him, that he is growing away from you. I think you guys should do something together"
"What should i do? I have no idea what he likes. at least i know he likes books but there is so much you can do with it."
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"Well as start he likes to just sit there drinking tea with some biscuit from time to time and it looks like he wakes up very early every day. He spends most of his time in the library drowning himself in books."
"There isn't much i can do, i have meetings i have to attend to." said Isaac
"Thats it! He can follow along in your meetings, Arthur is a good boy so he wont be causing you any trouble. Why don't you take him along in some of your meeting?"
"Honey you sure? I mean there isn't anything from taking him along, but he is just 3 years old."
"And how many 3 year old do you know that spends almost every second of their 3 year reading books? and doesn't cry or cause any trouble?"
"Okey... i guess he can come along in my next meeting."
At the time Arthur was as usual sitting in the library reading book when Isaac came in and said "Arthur do you want to follow along father on his meeting with important people?"
Arthur was pretty happy that he got such opportunity so early and nodded happily at Isaac.
"Okey then we will be going tomorrow, get good sleep okey?" said Isaac and left the library closing the 2 heavy door behind himself.
Arthur finished reading few books before he went to bed earlier than usual to prepare for the tomorrows journey.
He was very happy to get to go outside, it was kind of opportunity to study what its like outside, he only saw outside only once before when moving into the castle inside the city after he destroyed the old mansion
and there was still that Isaac was letting him follow along in his meeting with some people.
Arthur didn't know much other than Isaac was meeting with some people to talk about something, longer he thought about it more impatient he became.
Catching himself acting like kid, he thought to himself 'Now, now calm down a bit... there is no need to get impatient, after all its tomorrow.' and taking deep breath calming down and started reading the book he was going to take along in his journey before sleeping.
He was woken up by one of Isaacs personal butler, telling him "Young master, we will be leaving soon." and leaving the room right after Arthur woke up.
Arthur got up, put on his clothes for the travel and took one book he had just started reading the night before. It was called Delhi and was mostly about the different climates and terrains that existed on Delhi. The book was pretty thick and looked funny when 3 year old child holding it and carrying it around.
It was tingling the adventurous spirit sleeping deep inside of him, whispering to him 'look how interesting i am, come explore me! Discover my hidden secrets!'
Well its not like he could say he really heard it, its just that he got that kind of feeling while reading the Delhi. He didn't really like it, all that exploring and adventuring romance. Arthur liked stability and security more than the thrill of taking risks and going on adventures to who knows where, doing who knows what.
He didn't pay much attention to it and headed to the front of the mansion where there was carriage guarded by bunch of guards waiting for him with Isaac already inside.
He got into the carriage greeted Isaac and took a look around, it was always good to mark the people that were around you.
There were 10 guards dressed in good looking armor with the Liafael family crest which was a kind of old design beast inside a round rim with few spirals going out.
(Go to my drawing post to view it, it says Liafael family crest. I drew it, there may be very few changes to it later in date when i remaster all my chapters)
2 people handling the horses that will be pulling the carriage and 1 of Isaacs personal butler inside the carriage sitting facing Isaac in the carriage.
The butler was the butler that woke up Isaac in the morning today, when Arthur entered the carriage the butler nodded at him slightly saying "Young master" in quite voice.
The inside of the carriage was bit fancy with its reddish black tan and felt good to sit in, comfortable.
Isaac looked at Arthur seeing the book he held, asked him "Son, do you like the book?"
Arthur answered letting his book down a little "Yes, its very interesting. I like how detailed it explains the different terrains and different climates that exist."
"Ah, good! I knew you would like it. When i was few years older than you i used to read it and it was one of my favorite books right under the Encyclopedia of creatures. Oh boy is that a read. I will find one for you when i can.... so yeah"
"Yeah? i would appreciate that Isaac."
Isaacs face showed little bit of disappointment but quickly returned to normal when one of the guard told Isaac "Sir, we are all ready to leave."
"Ah, good let us leave then" said Isaac
The carriage went straight to the front gate leaving to the east, with the mansion becoming smaller and smaller
Chapter 3 Headache
Chapter 5