Chapter 22: Sally
Sally is eleven years old, her father is a dry goods merchant in St. Valentine, and her mother is the daughter of a steward of a wine-growing estate in the Islay Basin.
The marriage of her parents, both interests and emotional factors, such a family, coupled with fairly wealthy economic conditions, allowed her to spend a happy childhood, if there is no accident, when she is older, she will begin to receive some bridal education, and then marry and have children, and spend an ordinary life.
Although it should be like this, the little girl will inevitably have a feeling of boredom sometimes.
She often listened to her mother tell over and over again about her youthโas the daughter of the steward of the manor, she was sometimes given the opportunity to attend events organized by the noble lady, and these experiences seemed to be the brightest and most vivid moments in her memory.
"Sally, if you have someone you like in the future, you must let him come on a tall horse, and then get down on one knee and pick up a bouquet of flowers, and propose to you. "Every time at the end, my mother always got tired of saying that.
"But I must let him do it! The thing I regret most now is that when your father proposed to me, he agreed so easily......
But Sally didn't expect much from that. She always feels that a person's life seems to be richer?
Sometimes, Sally would dream in her dreams that she had become a mother, and each time, she would wake up in horror and fall into a great state of confusion that her life had ended before it had even begun.
The teacher who taught Sally to read once said that every human being has a fateful adventure in their life.
It was a bard who worked part-time as a tutor in between adventures to earn extra money, and then he left St. Valentine to join another adventure of his life and was never heard from again.
So, where does my adventure begin? Sometimes, Sally thinks like this, and then the whole body gets bored. Because, no matter how you look at it, your future life seems to have been planned.
However, in this drizzly late autumn, the trajectory of her life was changed by a sudden accident.
It was said to be an accident, but in fact it was also a man-made disaster, there were so many people on the crowded long street, but who could have expected that the convoy of the noble lord would stop for the daughter of a small merchant.
A handsome knight with a tall horse has never been her dream, and since then, it has not been.
Is my adventure coming to an end before it has even begun?
...... Then, it passed so uneventfully, but she thought that she would probably never forget that dashing figure.
It's just that I didn't expect that the matter was not over, because of a necklace that my mother bought by chance, myself and fate...... Met again.
Will she have a chance to be like her? When Enid threw that question at Sally, Sally asked herself inwardly.
She couldn't help but look at Ellie, and then she saw a pair of warm, encouraging eyes, just like before.
It turned out that the adventure he was destined to have already begun at that time!
"I accept!" she replied.
......
Enid was also satisfied.
Because of the second brother, she was still a little worried.
And if it's forced, then it's not interesting, and there's not really a shortage of maids in Lilac Castle.
Compared to the usual confusion in the eyes of others, Enid admired Sally's eyes.
Seeing the scene when she looked at Ellie just now, Enid already understood, that kind of gaze is called ...... Also, there may not be a second maid like Ellie, Enid thought quite contentedly.
"Okay, let's go. The silver-haired girl gave the order.
Soon, the group returned to Lilac Castle and found Master Cody. Enid was also curious about what was going on with that necklace.
Listening to the silver hair's request, the middle-aged mage didn't say anything and immediately began to prepare for casting spells.
He took a pearl from a small drawer in the laboratory, broke it, poured himself another glass of wine, sprinkled the pearl powder into it, and began to stir it with an owl feather, and finally drank it again.
Then, the spell was cast, and as the gestures and spells were completed, a magical aura flashed on the pendant on the little girl's chest.
"Master Cody, what the hell is going on with this necklace?" Enid asked impatiently.
"Well......" said Master Cody, after a moment's consideration, "This necklace will help people sleep more peacefully and recover faster and better when sleeping in the wilderness, and it can also be guided when tracking, searching, and other activities in the wilderness. On the contrary, when the person wearing this necklace wants to go underground or in the house, he will feel a hint of resistance, and if he is forced to rest in the house, he will not get a good night's sleep. โ
Well, Enid tried to understand it in a game-like way, that is, the character's various exemptions and skill checks can get additional bonuses, and it is indeed a prop suitable for professionals who often live in the wild.
"Also, I can sense that this necklace actually has a faint sense of self," added Master Cody, "and it only allows good people to wear it, and the wearer can be protected by it, and since it wants to protect its owner, it is naturally reluctant to let people take it off, which is a bit different from ordinary cursed items." โ
Oh, it's a necklace with a sense of self, which kind of is interesting. Enid looked at Sally, "Now, your decision is to keep it or take it off?"
"I want to keep this necklace. Sally said.
It's not that Sally has any yearning for life in the wild, but it is because of this necklace that she has been able to take a different step on the road of life, and for this, Sally also feels that she should keep it.
"Very well, I will arrange for you to stay on the outskirts of the castle, as close to the 'wilderness' as possible. Enid said.
"As for the usual ......," Enid thought for a moment, "you'll take care of Russell." โ
After arranging Sally's affairs, Enid remembered that the materials for copying scrolls and making staffs had not yet been bought.
The scroll is easy to do, just the usual parchment paper. Staff are much more troublesome, generally four to seven feet long, two to three inches wide, and weigh about five pounds, and even more troublesomely, depending on the spell, there are also requirements in terms of materials and details.
For example, a staff with Charming spells requires curled wood, a Healing staff requires poplar wood, a staff capable of Passwall and Move-Earth requires an emerald the size of a fist, and the popular Fireball staff is made of bronze wood.
Looking at the darkening sky outside the window, it was obviously too late to buy these things today, and the little girl had to give up.
The second brother didn't know when he would be able to come back, and thinking about his obsession with that Milinda, Enid suddenly felt that the greenstone talisman he had prepared was really a bit redundant.
The greenstone amulet is used to protect people from mental spells, but what other mind spell can make people lose their minds more than true love?
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