"Good morning! Wakey, wakey! Come up with you!"
I groaned as my sister pulled the curtains open and the bright rays poured over my face. Blinding me even though I still had my eyes closed.
"I told you not to do that, Lynn!"
Lynn just laughed evilly as she opened the window and left the room. Of course not without telling me to get up, again.
Always with that rough awakening, no love at all. I muttered.
It's not that I'm lazy, I just had a rough training session yesterday.
Yes, no love at all for their little brother. I swear they want to kill me.
Ah little part of me was glad, that I had two elder sisters looking after me and training me. But well, my aching muscles were cursing them.
Sluggishly I dragged myself out of my comfy bedding and into the bathroom in the need of a hot shower.
Somewhat refreshed I took the stairs down to the kitchen.
I heard my siblings discussing something silently. What it was about, I couldn't make out. They fell silent as they heard my footsteps. Hm, I maybe should train also in sneaking. But they probably will tell me anyways, if I ask. They say we shouldn't have big secrets from each others. So see if they do like they preach.
"Yo, what's up?"
"Good morning to you too, Llewellyn", Latanya greeted me, light sarcasm swinging in her voice.
"Good morning", I grumbled.
"Have we been sleeping well?"
I just shook my head, because I already had started to stuff my cheeks with the fresh bread and cheese. I was so hungry.
Lynn shoved the plate with a variation of pickled vegetables towards me.
How low-key. But a well balanced diet is important I guess.
"So, what happened? Does it have to with that letter you are holding in your hand?", I asked between two bites.
"Ah, yeah, it actually has to do with that.", Latanya answered, lifting her eyes from said letter.
"From whom is it?"
"We don't know, it's just signed cryptically with 'A Friend'."
"A friend. Aha, I wouldn't call someone a friend, whom we don't know and doesn't even sign with his name."
"Yeah, it's kind of sketchy, isn't it?", Lynn added.
"Don't be such a worry wart, dear sister. He or she wants to meet in the middle of Divinity's Reach, so there isn't much of a threat. The palace garden is swarming with Seraphs."
"Hm, well I guess so, so I shouldn't accompany you?"
"No, I don't think, that it's needed. But if you want, you can come along of course!"
"And I don't get asked, if I want to come along?", I inquired.
"No you don't. I thought your muscles were aching. And you aren't far enough with your training to stand your ground against experienced fighters. If the worst case should happen."
"Well, one can still ask, doesn't he?", I grumbled, "So, what is this meeting even about?"
"Ah, it's about our parents."
"Hn", that dropped my mood even further, that I wasn't allowed to accompany her.
"Don't be sad, I will tell you everything, if that person has any information as how he claims to."
"Yeah, yeah. No secrets?"
"No, secrets, promise!", she smiled at me. "Here, that's for you."
She gave me an amulett.
"Huh?"
"It was enclosed within the envelope. It belonged to our parents."
"Oh. Thanks."
Latanya stood up from her seat, "I will get into my gear then."
"I'm home!", my sister called into the hallway after she had opened the door to our domicile.
I was so excited to hear about what had happened at the meeting, that I almost leaped from my seat. But a quick glance to my sisterly tutor, I decided to rather not to do so.
Damn, and I was sitting with my back to the door of our kitchen, which we had opened earlier to get the air flowing a bit.
I heard the heavy steps come closer, but I was still trying to concentrate on the textbook lying in front of me. And remarkably failed in doing so.
"Yo. Llele. Is that textbook interesting?", she laughed and ruffled my hair.
"Hey. Don't do that! You tell me to comb my hair and then you mess it up!"
"Naw, sorry my little brother, but it's fun!", she gave me a wink as she fell into the chair beside me.
"So, I guess, it didn't go so well?", Lynn asked.
"No you were right, it all just was a fluke!"
"It began all with the introduction. That guy said he wanted to reunite with our family and then I already had a hunch about where that was going. And then a bit of villain rambling. It was kinda unreal, like in a storybook, a bad story…"
"And then you defeated the guy?", I added.
"Yeah, of course I all of sudden his bad guy colleagues show up."
Lynn raised her eyebrow.
"But don't worry my dear sister, I had help from two Exemplars of the Shining Blade, who showed up. And even though we were outnumbered, we defeated them with ease!"
"So, you again, just got out unharmed with pure luck?", Lynn shook her head in disbelief.
"Yeap!", Latanya got up from her seat, "I'm going to take a bath! Wish you fun with your textbook Llewellyn!"
"Don't you want to join in, apparently you could use some training on stealth, too", Lynn asked jestingly.
"No thanks! That's your kind of thing!"