"Where is everyone?" Rose asked Emily.
"They're all out working."
"Really…." Rose's face fell…she was going to be alone with Emily for a while.
Emily watched her over her tea and frowned, "Eat your breakfast, we have classes to get to."
Rose nodded and began to eat.
After breakfast Emily told Rose to walk over to her classes by herself and only showed up to let her know that they were changing.
"Rose honey, it's lunch time." her English instructor said, actually it was an hour after lunch.
"Emily told me not to leave until she gets here."
The old man sighed, "Come with me, we'll both go have lunch then."
"Can I?"
"Of course." he took her hand and they made their way to the dining hall. The old man's eyes narrowed when he saw the room empty of all food…he called out to the servant boy, "Where is all the food?"
"Ms. Emily told us to clear the table."
"Rose still hasn't eaten."
The boys eyes went wide and he looked down at the girl, "But…but Ms. Emily told us she already ate…"
The old man sighed, "Go tell the cook to prepare a meal for both myself and Rose."
"Right away." the boy ran back to the kitchens.
"Let's sit down." he said to Rose, pulling out a chair for her.
They sat in silence for a while until the noises of heals on the tiles broke it. In walked Emily.
"There you are!." she said, looking at Rose, "what are you doing here, your music lesson is starting."
"She is having lunch Ms. Renoire"
"And you are?"
"I am Desna, the English instructor." he replied.
"well it isn't time for English is it, come on Rose, we don't want Giotto to worry about why you missed your music lesson."
"Ms. Renoire I must insist that Rose has her lunch, seeing as it was your foolish oversight that caused her to miss it in the first place."
"Are you accusing me of purposely forgetting her?" Emily asked.
"Yes I am, and be aware that this misjudgment of yours won't go unnoticed by Primo."
"Are you threatening me?" she asked.
Rose looked between the two adults and decided to intervene, she didn't want to have a fight start.
"I'm not really that hungry." she said, "My breakfast was very big, I want to go to my music lesson."
"There you have it." Emily said, sending Desna a smug smirk.
"Are you sure Rose?"
She nodded and walked after Emily, trying to tell her grumbling stomach to stay quiet.
A new music instructor was hired to help Rose learn her notes, his name was Fran, short for something Rose couldn't even remember, but he was very nice to her and gave her chocolates when she did good. Emily had left once again, saying she would be back at the end of the lesson.
"Now Rose, let's play the piece you learned yesterday." he told her as she sat down and picked up her flute. He listened to her play and frowned, the music…didn't have any…feeling. "You can stop Rose." she did and he heard something that made him burst out laughing, her stomach growling. "Didn't you have lunch?"
"Emily said that I would be late if I did, so I decided to wait."
Late…how could you be late to his class…it was just down the hall from the kitchen…and he didn't mind if she brought her food into his class… "Well we can't let anyone play on an empty stomach, wait here I'm going to go ninja and bring some food okay." he winked at her before slipping out the door.
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I hope you are beginning to see the start of the problem. It always has to get worse before anything can get better. This is no different, lets see how all this works out.