Chapter 18: The Uninvited Raven Girl
At first, the aristocratic ladies in the living room were still quiet and listening out of politeness, but as the story unfolded, all the aristocratic ladies were unconsciously attracted and gradually immersed in the story.
When Eleanne finished reciting the long fairy tale, the living room burst into applause.
"Your Highness, your recitation is so good! It makes me forget the bitterness of coffee!"
"Yes, I have heard this story recited by poets many times, but none of them have touched her as deeply as Her Royal Highness ......the Princess."
"The love between the beautiful Snow White and the great Silver King is so touching, the kind princess who was persecuted by the Witch Queen, the handsome prince who came on a white horse, is there a better encounter in the world?"
In the face of the flood of praise, Eleni gently lifted the skirt and thanked the ladies in a posture that perfectly matched the princess's manners. Then holding "Dan Lun's Fairy Tale", he looked at Alicia expectantly, hoping to be appreciated by his sister.
However, Alicia was surprised to find that Alicia was staring in a certain direction in the side hall with calm eyes.
“...... When the deer's fluff brushed across the Twin Peaks, the hunter's javelin flashed in the shadows, and the galloping stag followed...... The lion poked out its claws......"
There was a chuckle in the side hall, interspersed with prophetic chants, as if the bored ladies were playing a game of divination again.
"Hee-hee! Stop playing dumb riddles, tell me quickly, what you see! From your divination poems, I seem to hear something bad! What javelins, what lion's claws, the ancestors are above, don't deliberately tell me too badly......"
As expected, in the side hall came the chuckle of Miss Leila Evans, the Duke of Evans's favorite little granddaughter, who was very enthusiastic and fond of divination games, and seemed to have been looking for her guardian knight through astrological divination.
"No, it's not that miserable! it can still be saved......"
The voice of the prophetic poem sounded again, but the voice was a little immature, like that of a little girl who had not yet changed her voice, which made Eleni feel very strange.
Alicia suddenly stood up and walked towards the side hall.
Aleni couldn't help but be a little surprised, and hurriedly followed.
When she walked into the side hall, she saw several aristocratic ladies of Leila Evans sitting in a circle in front of a crystal ball, flipping tarot cards with great interest.
Eleni felt that something was wrong, but she couldn't see anything wrong. When she followed Alicia's gaze, she was surprised to find a strange girl sitting at the round table, and she had unknowingly ignored her anomaly completely.
The girl looked to be only a teenager, and she wore a robe of unknown looseness, with a strange shape, sewn from unknown animal fur, which looked as if it had been made of pieces of fur and cloth, and was adorned with large pockets. The pockets were bulging, some stuffed with books as thick as bricks, some with neat rows of quill pens, and some hung test tubes full of liquid.
She wears a high, pointed traditional wizard's hat on her head, a small magic wand stuck behind her ear, and a large black-rimmed glasses on the bridge of her small and cute nose, which makes her young face look a different kind of tranquility and mystery.
Her face was delicate and beautiful, her fair skin, delicate facial features, like porcelain, beautiful not like a human being, and her long white gold hair flowing like time, hanging down from her shoulders like a waterfall, making her look as if she had come out of a fairy tale, flawless.
She looked so special, and her dress was out of step with the atmosphere of the court, but until Alicia noticed her, everyone didn't notice her anomaly, but instead surrounded her with great interest and joked about her. This is a very unusual situation.
What's even more bizarre is that above her shoulder, there is a raven with red eyes, this kind of creature that is said to be able to shuttle between the dead world and the living, with a lingering mysterious and dark atmosphere, which makes people involuntarily want to stay away. And at her feet, the same languid black cat, the legend of chasing evil spirits and bringing misfortune to people, is as intimidating as ravens and always conjures up images of death, misfortune and shadow.
The raven, the black cat, and the strange outfit all give her a mysterious and eerie atmosphere, which makes people attracted to it and instinctively want to escape at the same time.
"Oh, no, who are you? I don't know you!"
"Hey, Leila, didn't you bring her in?"
"No, Winnie, I remember she came in with you!"
"Isn't she a newcomer introduced by Jona?"
"Ancestor is above, I have never seen this person, and it is impossible for me to bring a stranger in!"
Alicia's arrival was like a cold wind from the Crown Ice Field, blowing away the fog that permeated everyone's minds.
Suddenly, all the noble ladies came to their senses, and they found that there was an extra stranger among them, and they had no impression of when this strange stranger appeared and how he entered.
Even before Her Royal Highness Princess Alicia walked in, they naturally ignored the stranger's abnormality, and naturally thought that she was a newcomer brought by one of their friends, and even greeted and chatted with acquaintances with her, as natural as friends for many years, without suspicion.
But as soon as Alicia entered, they seemed to wake up from a dream, and realized that all the extra things they had just had in their minds were illusory.
At this moment, the aristocratic ladies present were a little flustered.
"Who are you?"
Alie's face suddenly became serious, the palace was heavily defended and heavily guarded, in addition to the inspection of the royal knights on the surface, there were royal warlocks in the shadows who secretly cast spells to monitor the entire kingdom, and the palace had set up a powerful spell barrier since its establishment.
These powerful magic circle enchantments, after being improved and added by generations of strong people, are even more impregnable. Even if it is a legendary powerhouse, it is almost impossible to get in silently.
And the strange girl in front of her was able to sneak in here silently, and it wasn't until she was in front of Alicia that she showed her tracks. It's unbelievable.
"Well, really, I wanted to have a good time for a while and feel the difference in the court of the Aurora continent. However, fate never makes it happen!"
The mysterious girl shook her head slightly, sighed softly, closed the large open book in her hand, and stuffed it into her pocket. Then he turned his head slightly, took off his wide black-rimmed glasses, and looked at Alicia and Elenie.
Just a slight touch of gaze, Elenie's movements came to an abrupt halt.
The mysterious girl's eyes were darker than the deepest night, and just a moment when they looked at each other slightly, Alini felt as if her soul was about to be attracted to it, and with the will of the ice and snow sacrifice that she had advanced to the silver rank, she also felt slightly dizzy, almost subconsciously staggering her gaze.
Alicia's gaze calmly met the mysterious girl's, and from the girl's dark eyes, she saw the alternating cycle of the four seasons, the reflection of the starry sky of thousands of worlds, and the illusion of the human heart one after another, while her own eyes remained calm, as eternal silence as the ice fields of the Arctic eternal night.