Ch-2 Scary night

Empire year 450, In Birnis village of Hereina Empire, a woman was running frighteningly on the street in the middle of the night. Sudden thunderclaps in the cloudy sky were as loud as they could be. She was wearing a hood to hide her face and keep looking backward as if someone was following her yet not a single person was in her sight. That woman stops near the gate of count Rias's castle. Then started to look around her to find no one was there. She then put a basket on the ground near the gate which she was hiding in a cloth. And left.

That night a maid was on her way to find a doctor for the countess who was suffering from an unknown disease for several years. Her disease is suddenly acting out because of the rainy weather. The maid opens the gate on her way out and hears a baby crying nearby. She turns in the direction of the sound. And found a basket. When she opened the bucket she was shocked. A cute baby with red-black hair and green eyes.

At that movement, a carriage came out from the villa to help the maid bring the doctor as quickly as possible. "Let's go, Reeni." says the coachman. Then she suddenly remembers the countess situation and hops on the carriage without wasting a second.

The Countess's health has been always unstable so the Count Rias brought a house nearby for the doctor. It was only 10 min travel by carriage. The carriage reaches its destination. The maid jumped out of it and started to knock on the door continuously until doctor Heth didn't come out.

"How can I help you?" the doctor asks. "Countess's disease is acting up again please come with me to check on her," the maid said hurriedly. "Okay, let me bring my bag," says Dr. Heth.

Now the conversation between Reeni and Dr. Heth continue in the carriage on the way to the count's villa -

"Tell me when her symptoms started?"

"After having the dinner when she was heading towards her room"

"Did she eat anything unusual?"

"No!"

"Was she taking her medicine regularly...?"__' baby crying sound ' " Where is this sound coming from?"

The maid realizes that she brought the basket with her. The maid explains how she found and brought the abandoned child with her.

Dr. Heth says "Let me check the baby's temperature." Reeni hands over the child. The doctor examined the child and found that the baby had a fever.

" My guess was right, the child did have a high fever it can be deadly for a newborn baby"

" ! "

" Don't worry I'll give you the medicine but you have to take extra care of the child until someone comes and claims it theres, would you do that?"

"Can I do that?"

"Yes, but you have to take care of the child" "Then I leave the baby in your care but before that did you find anything else in the bucket?"

Reeni found a letter from the bucket and read it out aloud "please take care of my one and only 'Anesha'. "

They reach the villa. Dr. Heth went to examine Countess after giving the medicine for Anesha to Reeni.

Reeni brings Anesha to her room. She had a single room all for herself because she came through the recommendation of Marquess Grey, father of the countess.

In the morning Reeni's room, Anesha is playing with her blanket on Reeni's bed. Beside the bed, Reeni was sleeping on the chair. Hearing Anesha makes a sound while playing, Reeni woke up. She checks her and found Anesha's temperature is normal, Reeni prepares hot water in a tub and takes the baby girl to bathe.

"It's time for our Anesha to take a bath~~"

She prepares some warm clothes for the baby to wear. "Our Anesha looks cute in whatever she wears." 'She didn't even cry while I was bathing her and she laughs as soon as I talk to her, ooh~ now she is looking at me with her big green eyes, cute*_*' (Reeni thinking).

'knock knock' someone knocks on Reeni's door. A maid came in and told Reeni "The Countess is asking for you with the child you bring in." Confuses Reeni about how the countess knows about Anesha but still takes her. On her way to the countess room, some maids were talking about Reeni being insane bringing an unknown child with her.

"Madam Reeni is here." says an attendant. "Let her in"

Reeni greets countess Riass as she comes into the room. "Madam you called me," said Reeni (hesitatingly)

"Come sit here, I was waiting for you"

The countess was sitting on the bed, there was a chair near the bed where the countess asked Reeni to sit.

Reeni sits on the chair and places Anesha on her lap.

"What's her name?"

"Anesha, madam"

"Let me have a closer look"

Reeni stands up from the chair and hides Anesha behind her. "Madam, she did nothing wrong"

"Madam asking something, give the baby to madam while I'm being nice, Reeni." the head maid says while approaching Reeni.

Reeni hugs Anesha, swinging her neck from right to left while going backward.

"Stop Ria, look you're scaring her."(Ria is head maid) "come here Reeni, don't be afraid"

Reeni is terrified but still gets closer because the countess was looking harmless while sitting on her bed, looking sick from an unknown disease. She hesitates but gives Anesha to the countess.

"Anesha you say, I heard from the doctor but she looks cuter in person. From this moment on words, she is my daughter."