Chapter 2 - Information

Before going into full panic mode I close my eyes as I suck in a mouthful of air then exhale to calm myself. Then I look down at the unconscious person, a idea pops up. " I can try that resuscitation technique we see in movies right? Well, this is only a dream so I might as well give it a try." I bend down then pause as I try to have a good look at his face pinching his nose. Slowly I inhale a mouthful of air and hold it in, I lean in pressing our lips together. I blow the air I was holding into his mouth, clearly, a rookie trying to breathe air into his lungs. To be honest I fumbled around before I got it right, due to how little light I had to work with. I repeat the process a few times as a thought pops into my mind. 'You know you could be kissing a corpse right?' Just as the thought pops up the corpse suddenly starts coughing, and I back away as I release a breath of relief. However, the person in question remains unconscious after rolling to his side and having coughed out whatever was blocking his lungs. I pull myself up to my feet with a bit of a struggle as my clothes are heavy from soaking up the pouring rainwater and getting dirty from the mud since I was kneeling on the ground. I bend my upper half as I grab the collar of the person's clothes to drag the body out of the rain. While dragging the body with much difficulty I feel a sharp pain strike me in the back of the neck. 'Oh no, this is just like in the movies! Don't faint-!' The girl falls to the ground, right next to the body she was dragging after being struck, the culprit, a man in black who has been watching her do whatever she wished with his master's body. Whose been pretending to be unconscious for unknown reasons, his master has always been weird since he was little. Which worked to his surprise and this woman is even brave enough to kiss a man?! Not once but multiple times!? He has never seen such a brazen and shameless little girl before, wasn't she running away from his master? Didn't she say if someone saw him dying on the side of the road they wouldn't (try to) save him? Then what is this sudden development? She came to save him within a heartbeat

The scene shifts back to the part where the two males discover that said 'bride' has brown skin. She even had the guts to kiss the young master multiple times - with the condition of her skin is in she really is too brazen?! Their thought at that moment is that they got bad luck with the bride their young master has gotten for himself but there's no time to back out of the marriage. He needed to get married and any girl would do at this point! Just so long as she's not part of the noble circle even if she has a bad reputation it is better than marrying the daughter of a noble. The older male of the two looks at her and then thinks to himself, 'I hope she's not cursed... Or does she just need a bath? Let's-'. He grabs her hand, rubs it, then looks at his own in shock, "So strange... I've never seen such a being with such a dark skin complexion. Could she be a poor girl who survived by working on farming crops? I hear the lower class work under terrible conditions just to meet their daily quarter, young master". "She is the second daughter of a very famous merchant, even my father praises this merchant for his excellent products. He is worth a fortune but he isn't well known thus he hasn't got that many clients as of yet. But father knows that in no time he will be in high demand hence he is doing his best to be in his good books. He wants one of my elder brothers to take her in as a concubine but if I marry her as my first wife. Her father will have to bend to my will... What is so hard about being with one woman for the rest of my life, not like I have the urge to be in a romantic relationship with her or any woman in this lifetime." The guard looks at the young boy with a suspicious twinkle in his eyes as a thought crosses his mind, 'Master are you sure you don't have any feelings for women? Do you have a vegetable or...' The guard steps back from his master as a cold shiver runs up his spine but his master is too busy thinking about the maiden on his bed then to notice his guard's foolery. "He spoils all three of his daughters, they are said to never be lacking in physical wealth or beauty so her being a farmer's daughter is very unlikely..." The young boy looks back at his guard who can only shake his head in confusion as he runs out of answers for the girl's dark skin

They stand and observe the unconscious girl for a while, suddenly she sneezes. Snapping the two out of their trance also caught their attention. The younger male calls for someone at the door, and a guard enters. The man in black has disappeared undetected by the new presence, the guard bows his head bowed as he greets his master. "Young lord, you called for me?" The man standing known as the young lord nods his head, "Yes, I need a change of clothes..." He looks at the girl whose not visible to the guard due to the blinds in his room. "Do you know what girls are like these days?", the guard can only question his own reply as his master asks an unusual question as if this was an everyday occurrence but stops when he registers the last part, "Yes, my- my lord?" He raises his head in confusion

The young lord looks at the guard and then pounders over the words he said to his shadow guard. Suddenly realising why the guard would stare at him in confusion and maybe suspicion, "You-!" He changes his choice of words because the culprit was not present, "Summon some maids, tell them to bring the most sought-after jewel sets by women in this mansion that is not already owned by anyone to me". The guard nods his head and leaves in a hurry. Not too long after, two maids come to the Lord's room and he shows them the brown-skinned girl then instructs them to take care of her. He also instructs them to keep her presence a secret and not to think negatively of her. The two maids look at each other hesitantly but bow before leaving their master's room. They do as their told, they return after half an hour with two basins with warm water, and clothes to go with the accessories. They hang the clothes on a wooden stick frame and place the accessories in the wooden box next to it. Once the girl is fully dressed in dry clothing they tuck her under their master's blankets as they presume she'll be sleeping in his bed. The young boy from earlier enters his room, in a change of dry clothes as well. The young master had left to prepare in a separate room before the maids started attending to the sleeping girl. Seeing the girl dressed in dry clothing he nods his head in satisfaction but his brow furrows in confusion when he notices that she's sleeping on his bed. He pinches the crook of his nose while sighing. The maids look at their master in worry and ask if they had mistaken something, the male only shakes his head and dismisses them

Once the doors close shut, the boy walks towards his bed to where the girl is resting. He sits on the bed with his back facing the girl, thinking of the current situation. He observes the girl's sleeping face, staring at her like a creep, looking at the colourful clothing that wrapped around her body. He notices that the clothes are not the usual clothes he sees every day, her clothing covered her face. Though her hair was dried and combined, it had covered her face so he couldn't see the female's face, this sparks a feeling of interest and curiosity in the far corner of the male's mind without his knowledge. He inches closer to the girl's sleeping face and his breath brushes over her nose which is under a layer of hair. Reflexively she wiggles her nose, then he brushes her hair away from her face. During this whole process the girl seems to have regained her consciousness, she slowly opens her eyes and stares for a few seconds before shutting them again. Almost like she didn't believe what she saw, which she didn't. Imagine waking up to see a man hovering mere inches away from your face. And you don't have a lover or live with one at the moment. How would you react in this situation?! However, when she opens them again, she sees a handsome-looking male. No such thing happens unless you are dreaming... Is she dreaming? The girl felt like she was having an outter body experience