A Child Within These Walls Again

When Artie saw that Larkin was reading a document while on the bed, she figured it should be something important. However, as she looked over the parchment, it was only about the welcome notice of a port village called Baler. He seemed to be traveling to the village with no major reason for his visit. Moreover, she was even used as an excuse.

"I was the one who wanted to go to the port village?" Artie lifted a brow, and the archduke even had the audacity to nod as if she wasn't mistaken by what she just said, It was funny; she didn't want to spend another day out of the archduchy and then have another day with the added workload. 

Then again, she figured something must have pushed Larkin to decide that she wanted to see this place. She then hummed. "Why do you think so?"