“amazing..”

She was mesmerized by the garden when someone pulled her in a deep hug. Eloria’s ears twitched when she heard severus sniffing in her shoulder. He hid his face in her shoulder and sniffed while murmuring

“how long….just how long have you been gone..”

He murmured as eloria looked at maeve with a puzzled look. Maeve signaled her to just embrace him back for the moment and she nodded, hugging him back and ruffled his gray smoke-like hair.

“don’t worry my lord, im back now.”

She spoke softly as he hugged her more tightly but gently, embracing her frail and slim body carefully as if she would break any moment soon if used force.

They arrived to a small verandah in the garden, and sat there. Maeve sat infront of them whereas eloria and severus sat together since severus whinned over being next to eloria.

“you looked abit more…grown up when you didn’t recognize me so whats this..”

Eloria laughed slowly as she spoke and severus replied

“its because its you im sitting with, is it wrong to be yourself with the person you like?”

Her heart fluttered abit when she heard that coming from someone who looked handsome even when his eyes were swollen from all the crying and she shakeed her head quickly.

“no no, please suit yourself as you wish..”

“that’s right, you called me “my lord” before. What happened to you calling me sevy? Im hurt!”

Eloria was clueless as ever when maeve laughed slowly and told her to just go along with it.

“ahahaha…right Im sorry..”

Eloria hesitated when she saw severus glaring at her while pouting with the “call me sevy” expression. His expressions were written all over his face so eloria sighed and looked away from the corner of her eyes and stuttered slowly

“forgive me, s-sevy..”

Her heart exploded from cuteness overload when severus smiled and snuggled in her arm.

“that’s right, im only your sevy!”

He seemed like a puppy from eloria’s view and she smiled faintly. They spent the day talking here and there when someone shouted eloria’s name behind severus.

The sound came from a distance but eloria immediately stood up when she heard it. Infront of her, far but not that far was her older brother standing and panting as if he ran all over the world. He panted and struggled to run but tripped. Eloria had in mind that she would run but instead, when she had the thought she appeared right infront of him and caught him before he fell.

“xilver..?”

She spoke slowly and xilver immediately tackled her with his huge body, hugging her so tight it was hard to breathe.

“my goodness, thank the kyra your safe and sound! Where the devil have you been and why didn’t you tell me you came back here again?! I was worried sick about you in the cramped house!”

Eloria had enough confusions for the day so she pushed him and flicked his forehead madly.

“stop nagging and explain all this since you seem familiar with this world.”

Xilver frowned over the slight stinging pain of the flick and replied

“about that, we have to wait till all 12 of us are here.”

“all 12?”