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"Wake up" the small voice at the back of her head or in her dreams woke her up. She hummed her response and opened her eyes to be met by a pair of emerald eyes.

"Who are you?" Sarin didn't even need anything to tell her that this was the man or prince who had been giving her the weirdest of the looks since she arrived here.

"Prince Jurian" he sat opposite from her offering those weird looks he always gave.

"Why do you stare at me like that" if it weren't for her sleepy mode, she wouldn't have been so courageous to speak the way she felt like.

"Like what" his voice was deep and masculine. He had cocked a brow at her question.

"Like am the first human being you've ever seen" she rubbed her sleepy eyes and looked at him with strain since it was dark and she was still in the library where Bethany had left and unfortunately, forgot her.

"Because you're very beautiful" she almost blushed but didn't. That was too straight forward, he seemed to have said that to evade the real reason why he stared.

"I don't think so" he didn't look dangerous but mischief reined at the corner of his eyes.

"You don't think you're beautiful?" he asked with a mischievous smile. She didn't reply but simply studied him.

"You should leave this place, it's not safe" he said after the weird silence as he looked around the library with a tentative look.

She frowned, "The castle is not safe" that should not be right.

"Its not" gathering her books she carried them in hand as he guided her out and closed the doors.

"What were you doing there?"

"I was locking the doors when I felt your presence in there so I checked, what were you doing in there?" I bunch of keys hung on his waist belt.

"I think it's pretty clear" she gestured to the books, "studying" she finished.

"Ok and-" footsteps stopped his words and disappointment crossed his features but he masked it with a forced smile.

Bethany looked at him then back at her, "Thank You, let's go" there was some hostility between them, it was in the air.

The tension.

After walking for some distance they arrived at the room, "Stay away from him, he's trouble wrapped in chocolate"

Sarin couldn't help but agree with her, he did look like trouble.

"What's Chocolate?" it had caught her attention since she'd never heard of chocolate in the mortal world. Bethany smiled widely, settling on the bed with her feet folded.

"The heaven on earth, I'll take you out soon so you can see the magic of this city" she beamed looking at the books.

"Did you read them?" as much as she never wanted to admit, it was too boring to read them in such a quiet and lonely place that's why she slept.

"I slept" she answered truthfully, she read a little then her mind drifted to Gray till she fell asleep.

"I guessed you would, we'll figure out a way to educate you" Beth said then slumped her body on the mattress with a sigh.

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Klaus pushed the books he had retrieved from the tomb on his drawer. He hadn't slept and wasn't planning to so he put on his coat and walked out of his house which was in town.

He walked to a small library which was surprisingly still open even this late in the night. It was a witch shop so he understood why, no one could steal here unless they were stupid.

He touched the barrier preventing people from entering and it created a space where he walked in.

"How may I help you sir?" the man behind desk was short with a bald head and spectacles that hung low on his nose.

He didn't bother to walk to the old man but just looked at him with hands in his coat.

"I need a Taria Language book interpretor."the man looked up at Klaus observing him then looked for the book and handed it over. No payments just as long as you returned it to him after using it.

Klaus winnowed back to his house and dropped the book home then winnowed to the beach.

Just a few hours ago he was there kissing the woman who was unbelievably his. He had never felt better than that night.

The dimensional door appeared and he walked in to Cunningham. The stench of the noisy market of Cunningham filled his ears.

He preferred silence but humans could never shut it. Winnowed again to the Warehouse on Imperial grounds.

"It's early time you showed your face back here" Gray's voice said from a room away. Obviously he felt his arrival.

"You missed me didn't you?" Klaus asked with a definite smile.

Gray didn't move from his position, looking out of the window at the thick forest or litsening to the quiet home a distance from here. She wasn't there, Klaus knew since he saw her in Dalotopia.

"I Just want you back to deal with your duties am tired of being pestered"

"I'll deal with them before I leave" Gray looked up surprised.

"You still want to go back there, huh?" he asked in a murmur. Klaus didn't reply since the answer was obvious.

"You know she's gone right?" Klaus asked.

"Yeah, I can't feel her anymore, I'll pay her a visit tomorrow" Gray said with a genuine smile.

"Ok"

"See your Aunt and Sister before you leave" Klaus nodded and dissapeared.