chapter 19 aftermath mom's concerns

Basil's perspective

I woke up the next morning to find Eris sleeping right next to me. it took me a minute to remember why she was in here. it was late last night when you got home. we were told to go to bed and that we would be questioned when we got up in the morning. after I cleaned up and went to go into my room Eris stopped me. she grabbed my hand and while blushing she asked if she could sleep with me. I gave her a nod we went to my room and slept.

back to the problem on hand trying to get up without waking Eris up is going to take a miracle or not as she begins to wake up. Eric looks at me and then she blushes gets up and runs back to her room. she must be embarrassed I thought to myself.

I get up and get changed, grab my money tie my sword to my waist and put my dagger in my boot. walk out of my room where I run into ghislaine she says will do I replied and I headed to the reception room.

in the reception room there was seros Philip and with them a handsome man with brown hair and soft green eyes. who if I remember correctly his name is Lancelot Griffin. Eris's mother Hilda it's also here. I step into the room perform the nobleman's bow. seros bellows out I nodded and took my seat and then I told him everything that happened and left out no detail. Philip was rubbing his head and he asked why I sent the severed heads and a letter to Darius. so I responded Lancelot looks at me and says under his breath Philip was just slowly shaking his head and he said I asked him which Philip responded I nodded and Philip continued I put my head down and I apologize to Philip for my actions Philip just waves his hand and says and just like that the meeting was over.

3 weeks went by and things went back to normal. we have resumed Eris lessons. I continued to get training from ghislaine. I still worked on my magic scrolls figures and toys. I also had to take etiquette classes with Eris. and as a reward for keeping Eris safe seros put an ad up for a water God trainer. we even took some jobs at the adventuring guild. the most interesting thing was though is a few days before my journey home. Lancelot came by to see ghislaine and tell us the aftermath of what happened during the trial of Darius.

Darius apparently wasn't going to go quietly and he had his own private army to defend him against the knights that we're trying to arrest him. and the first prince wasn't making matters any easier doing his best to defend him which royally pissed seros off. but even the prince couldn't protect him from his next course of action in which Darius try to have princess Ariel killed. you would have succeeded too had it not been for her guardian mage. apparently this lit a fire in the first princess as she's now gunning for the throne she's already got some supporters like the notos Greyrat and the Griffin family even seros switched allegiances and started backing the first princess. unfortunately Darius had escaped which caused a huge manhunt when they did find him out on the road dead with a hole in his chest. and apparently the rumor about a silver haired blue-eyed boy named basil grayrat and how he was the youngest one to achieve Saint ranked in all three sword schools how he single-handedly killed 14 grown men at the age of 10 and was going to take over the house Boris was circulating among the nobles in the capital.

the day before our annual trip home I was packing when Eris walked in demanding I take her with me. I told her maybe you should ask your father first she gives me a huff and walks out of the room. I'm excited to see Mom and Aunt Lilia and my two sisters norn and Aisha.

the next day as me and my brother were boarding up the carriage Eris came with some luggage yourself and when I asked her what do you think you're doing she responded that she got ended up getting permission to come with me. and on the way there we ran into a unfortunate situation. we were being attacked by what I assume to be assassins fortunately me and ghislaine were there and we made sure work of the assassins as we checked them we couldn't find any evidence on who sent them so we had Rudy burned their courses as we continued on our way.

I started getting really excited as we passed through our village gate. the minute The carriage stopped outside of our house. I bolted out where I was greeted by Mom. I run up to her give her a big hug which she returns saying I replied Rudy joins in in the hug mom then takes a long look at us and says me and Rudy both respond with we are all right. I then told Mom mom smiled and said then I greeted Aunt Lilia siad that she's glad we're safe. father responds with after I greeted dad I said hello to my two baby sisters Eris reintroduced herself. after a while of chatting Eris let slip that we were attacked on the road which made Mom very concerned and she started saying that she wanted me to stay here that it was too dangerous. dad laughed at that and said that we would be fine. mom wasn't too happy. it was time to get dinner ready. so I told Mom that while dinner is getting ready can I make a quick trip to go see sylphy mom knows her head and off I go with Rudy and Eris following behind.