Yasuline had that dream again. She couldn't exactly put her finger on an exact description of what it was, but she knew it was a dream she had before. Because all she was seeing was darkness. Empty space.

"..."

She tried to move her body, but couldn't. But knew she had a body TO move. She tries again, and again.

"...Wa..."

She felt something touch her. Something touched her body. She was definitely sleeping, but she was unable to wake up. She had to keep trying to move her body. She somehow knew that was how she will wake up.

"....Wake..."

She could feel one of her fingers move. That was good. Next, she would be able to wiggle her toes. One step at a time. Little by little, she was beginning to get a better feel of her body.

"Wake up."

The voice calling out to her was getting more and more clear. The vision she was looking at was shifting to a more gray environment. Though, it wasn't actually a place, as it was more of a tunnel, with whirling lines that spiral to the end of the tunnel far ahead of her. She wondered what could be on the other side of there.

It could be her adventuring nature to want to know, but she had more important matters to consider, like...

"Wake up, Yasuline."

Queen Noria would call out to her daughter as she saw her eyes flutter as she was finally coming to.

"Suko, she is coming back." She would call out as more and more movements were happening. Suko was sitting by the corner of the door frame of the balcony, watching the castle workers work hard to clean the mess of the castle. Hearing her daughter, snapped him out of his distraction and he would storm over and leans slightly over her.

And just in time, as Yasuline starts opening her eyes, and instead of the ceiling of her room greeting her "Good morning," it was the smiling faces of her mother and father.

"Mom? Dad?"

"Good morning, Yasuline." They say in unison and each lightly touching her cheeks until she starts trying to sit up.

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"What are you guys doing in my room?"

"Well, waiting for you to wake up." Her mother answered sincerely.

"You sure took your sweet time too, you missed out so many mealtimes." Her father added, finishing off his little joke with a chuckle.

"So many? How long was I sleeping?"

"Well, it has been a few days. Well, exactly it has been a whole week."

"Woah, really? Doesn't feel like I did, I feel like I want to sleep for that long now." She says as she sluggishly rubs her eyes, and then lightly pats her cheeks to awakening herself more.

"I getcha, I feel the same way after me and you mom would-"

Whatever he was going to say, her mother would cut him off with a stiff elbow in the stomach. One hit and he falls over onto the ground to hug his stomach in pain. Yasuline would only be more confused. As if knowing that she had slept for a whole week was bad enough to strain her mind.

As she gets out of bed, she would find herself in one of her comfortable one-pieces. From the fragile memories, she remembered that she was wearing the outfit that the White Reaper had gifted her.

Her mother notices her eyes searching for something.

"Lose something, dear?"

"Umm, not really, just that I remembered that I was wearing different clothes."

"Oh, that strange outfit. It was pretty dirty, so we went to get it cleaned up and fixed. We had it stored since you were still sleeping."

"Oh, okay. Umm, I think I had other things with me."

"Like that sword of yours?" Her father returned to the conversation as he finally recovered from the surprise blow.

"Oh, umm yeah."

"Yeah, it's with your outfit too. It was funny to see it again, I nearly forgot about it."

"Huh, you know about it, Dad?" She doesn't hide her shock to such a revelation. She wondered if he also knew about where it came from.

"Of course I do. I'm an adventurer, after all!" He says, sounding somewhat offended by such a question.

A knock on the door disrupts their conversation. Upon given permission, one of the castle guards enters. "Your majesty, all of the nobles have arrived and begun assembling in the makeshift meeting room."

"Ah, good. And perfect timing too."

"Wait, the nobles are here?"

"Yes, we need to take to discuss future planning and everything considered what just happened to the castle and to us."

"Yasu, since you're up, you should join the conversation. I'm sure this time you'll actually enjoy it. I promise!"

"Well, I guess. It sounds relevant enough for me to pay attention too." She would say with hesitation, but after thinking it over, the meeting piqued her interest. She starts to head into her closet to fetch one of the dresses in there, even feeling fine enough to wear one of the more uncomfortable ones that her mother adored a lot.

Her mother grabs her shoulder and shakes her head. "You can wear that, it's fine for now."

"Really? Thought you didn't like it."

"I wouldn't say that, but today is a special day." She would say with a knowing smile. Her father shared the same smile as his wife.

She really hated it when they did that, but it was too obvious, but, she got to keep her dress on, so she would leave them as-is and leaves her room with them right behind her, each holding onto her shoulder.