Tutelage

It was unusual for Wy to be invited to any world conferences, despite her recognition. This was because her recognition was mostly limited to Oceania and she'd only receive invitations from her brothers, Australia and New Zealand when they were the hosts. Thankfully though, this conference was to be in Melbourne, not far from her country and would be the first she herself was old enough to attend, as opposed to sending a delegate or representative in previous years. While she wanted to see what some countries she hadn't met were all about, she knew enough about other countries from her brothers to know not to expect very much. Australia had told her that if she found someone remotely normal in the conference room, she'd done something worth talking about.

Knowing this full well, she slowly opened the door to the vast conference room and to no surprise, she was greeted by the sight of several nations arguing amongst themselves over something irrelevant or completely mundane. On her way through to her seat she'd heard bickering about all kinds of things that in all honesty, she thought nobody should really care about. In the air of frustration, she simply tried to shut out everything around her and when she finally took her seat, she dropped her things behind her and let out a sigh of irritation. She'd been known to express her irritation with something if there ever was any so when she was this disappointed with the powerful nations of the world, she really couldn't help it.

She threw her head back and spoke out loud "Why do I even expect so much?" she said her voice becoming more irritated with every word, though in the chaos that was the conference room, she didn't think anyone would hear her. "Just solve your petty arguments peacefully and actually do something important for a change!" she's completely ignored who she'd taken her seat next to, before she was interrupted by his posh sounding German accent.

"How about they act their age so you don't have to act so much older than you are, child?"

Wy turned to her right at this, and was greeted by a smiling couple of countries. One a male who was wiping the glasses across his nose and the other a woman giggling before she added "Aren't you glad that our time of peak power has passed Austria?"

So this was the Austria that Wy was often confused to be related to. The man replied to his companion "I'm very glad, Hungary. I don't have to get tangled up in arguments with those idiots." He said, a tone of slight irritation hidden in his response.

Wy spoke up to the pair in front of her "So you two are Austria and Hungary? At least you two realise you don't have a worldwide empire anymore unlike some people." She began pointing across the room to England and France, who were involved in their eternal argument that they'd never really let go of. The three all looked over to where she was pointing and then scanned the room, seeing much of the same but with different countries.

Both Austria and Wy muttered "Idiots." to themselves before looking at each other confused at how they said the same thing at almost the exact same time, which brought out a few giggles from Hungary before she stopped and spoke.

"And who are you? I don't think I've ever seen you before." She said with a smile on her face

"I'm the Principality of Wy!" the young micronation proudly announced to what she saw as her audience of two "An Australian micronation and the Artists' Principality. I believe that arguments amongst all nations should be solved through the arts, not constantly being at each other's throats for hundreds of years. However, I should be realistic. With these being the nations, I'm not hopeful."

Austria spoke up "So you're an artistic girl are you? I'm quite talented musically myself." He said beaming with pride "I love the piano and consider myself an expert at playing it."

"I'm impressed Mr Austria." Wy replied, glad that someone other than her brothers had given her reason to have a discussion with them "I'd love to see you play at some point, though it's quite a journey from my house to yours."

"You're right!" Hungary piped up, "But we made it here to Melbourne so it's by no means impossible. Maybe we can arrange something?"

With a thoughtful look on her face, Wy was sat still for a moment before Hungary continued "I'm sure Mr Austria would love to teach you a few things about music too!"

"He would?"

"I would?" Austria said, before following immediately on "Well, of course I could. But you'd have to be interested enough to want to learn."

Wy smiled, knowing that she no longer had cause or reason to be sarcastic or irritated anymore, considering she'd just received such a kind offer from Austria and Hungary. "I'm always interested to learn from respectable older nations like you two!"

"Since it looks like this conference is going to be more than one session we can arrange something then. But until that time arrives-" Austria's attempt at trying to talk to his potential student was interrupted by an irritated brunette Italian yelling at the Austrian's former German student.

Austria gave an exasperated sigh before speaking again "We'd best deal with this hadn't we Hungary? We'll talk about this in the next session Wy."

"That'll be when my brother decides then. I'll see you both later!" The young micronation smiled at the older nations as they went across the conference room to try and calm down an apparently annoyed southern Italian. This gave Wy a chance to collect her thoughts and think about the possibility of having Austria as a music tutor. Certainly, music counted as art and she was proud of her artistic ability in terms of performing and especially drawing and painting. From the bag she'd dropped behind her seat earlier on, she was about to reach for a pencil and sketch pad she'd brought with her until she heard a familiar voice out of nowhere.

"You should totally get Austria to teach you Wy!"

Wy almost jumped out of her seat in surprise, but quickly composed herself and looked around her, to find another micronation standing behind her, hidden behind a plant that was nearby.

"Sealand?" Wy exclaimed, astonished that he'd been listening to the conversation she was having "Why are you sneaking around the conference? In fact, why were you listening to someone else's conversation?"

"I needed something interesting to listen to that wasn't arguing Wy! And that's not the point!" Sealand replied in his usual overexcited tone

"So what is the point?" Wy replied, trying to get to what Sealand actually had to say.

"You always complain about being bored right? Like how you always say you only ever come to our meetings because you're bored?"

"Yes. That's true…"

"Well, since Sweden and Finland started looking after me I've had loads more to do! How about you let them look after you so that you're not so bored all the time? " Sealand said with a smile "Plus you'll be much closer to me, which is a good thing right?"

Deliberately ignoring Sealand's final point to try and avoid embarrassment, Wy muttered to herself just loud enough for Sealand to hear "I guess I've never really had any parental figures. And those two seem to quite like me."

Sealand listened to Wy carefully for once before piping up "Why wouldn't they like you? There are many things others should like about you! Just think about it, but for friendly advice, I'd let them see that you're worth looking after for a long run!" With that, Sealand left Wy to her thoughts and went off to see if he could speak to Latvia without being noticed. The idea of having a "parent" intrigues Wy, who'd mainly been looked after by Australia. But when all was said and done, they acted much more like siblings than a parent and child, despite any tom-boyishness she had clearly coming from his influence. Austria and Hungary hadn't offered to look after her yet however, so she felt like she couldn't look too far ahead.