Chap. 3 - The first meeting -
The two young people advanced toward the staircase that brought to the superior plans avoiding the use of the inside elevator. The silent house, well furnished with refinement and rare furniture, transmitted a sense of pressing subjection and sumptuousness. Every particular of the furniture and of the precious tapestries, contributed to create a solemn and formal atmosphere.
Garma walked of side to his friend speaking in a low voice and turning, among the middle finger and index of his hand, a lock of his thick hair with violas' reflexes.
The friend advanced with elegant gait, he observed with air apparently disinterested and detached every thing, without shine through some emotion.
- It suits me to make a beautiful surprise to Kys, I would like to catch her in her room without forewarning her of our entry… - Garma exclaimed with frivolous and hilarious tone; his bright eyes, shone of joy
- I doubt that she would appreciate! - the friend allowed to observe, while inside of himself, he was rather had a good time
Garma shook the head and suddenly drew near to the stately door of appreciated wood lacquered of a blinding white.
He made a sign with the head to his friend that stopped him to few footsteps from him and, without knocking, he lowered, with vehemence, the gold opening handle opened the door.
The room that opened in front of their eyes showed furniture ivory with to read floral decorations, perfectly combine to the accessories in liberty style and, on the fund, three ample English glas windows that allowed to penetrate a bright light. Under the ample windows a great bed was found to canopy of the same colour of the furnish and a light crimson drapery; on the bed, comfortably expanse, with the shoulders leaned to the numerous pillows of beige silk, a young woman, was absorbed in the reading of a book.
The woman wore a kind of undergarment to rather long kimono, with the edges elegantly embroidered, from the colour of the wistaria.
Her posture, for how much expressed a sense of relaxation and intimacy and her room attire, also denoted sober elegance and absolute lack of frivolity.
Only the legs, slender and sinuous, lengthen on the bed, the feet tapered by the taken care of fingernails and the long ones, soft hair red - fire, exalted the femininity and the attractiveness from the girl.
Garma fell him in the room, widening the arms and exclaiming:
"Beloved Sister", while Kycilia held back him not few to shout for the irritation more than for the fear. It immediately flowed out of the room an extraneous person in which it recognized the young one that she had seen close to the smaller brother, in the sport car, and she tried to contain her anger.
- Who gives you the permission to enter my room without knocking? - said with abrupt and annoyed tone, dissolving the whole hilarity of Garma.
- Well Kys, I wanted to do you a pleasant surpise… aren't you happy to see me after again, it passed long months? – Garma said uselessly
- Known with sorrow that the military discipline, for the time being, has not gotten some effect on you! - the girl said cool
- Possible that you owe to be so glacial in a moment so?-tried to joke Garma, realizing himself only then, of the inquisitional look that his sister launched to the new guest
- I wanted first to greet you and then to introduce you my friend - Garma continued
- Garma, it is serious already that you keep on behaving you as a spoiled child and capricious, if to this, you add that allow to an extraneous to get in himself in my room, … -
- To the moment, I have not afforded to enter Your room, Princess! - the young blond intervened with a heat and definite tone of voice that kept on stopping over the door of entry
The face of Kycilia darkened only for some instants, she thought about taking back with vigor that disrespectful boy, then she considered appreciating the compote of his determination and the crafty speech.
- And' guilt my Kycilia if I have involved my friend… - it said Garma
He will also have a name? - Kycilia beat with decision
The young one from the blonds hair respectfully bent and slightly the head before presenting himself:
- My name is Char Aznable! – he exclaimed with the clear and ringing voice
- Sister, introduces you the good companion of course to the Military Academy, - Garma intervened for pleading the cause of his friend
- I believe not both the case that you stay there impaled on the threshold of the room - she said with false complying turning to Char, preserving a hard and direct tone.
With sure footstep, the youth advanced in the room, setting himself to the center of the room: the insistent light illuminated completely his person exalting the natural elegance of him. The blonds hair, soft and moved, framed the face from the perfect features, the very clear skin and apparently delicate, didn't diminish in some way the virile refinement of his somatic characters. Only the eyes, from the unknown colour, since covered by the thick dark lenses, didn't allow any investigation. Kycilia, surprised herself to think that they had to be very beautiful however. That thought didn't like her and she chased it from the mind because held inopportune and not appropriate.
- I have never felt the name of your family; where, does it originate, exactly? - the woman asked mistrustful
- My parents are dead in an accident more than 15 years ago, when I was very small and I have been submitted to relative that lives in France. When it has just been possible I have returned on Side 3, I didn't like to live on the Earth -
- You wants to say that you has come back to the Principality of Zion, Mr. Aznable; true? - Kycilia provoked him
- Certain - Char corrected himself - It is what I intended to say -
- Char is the best Official student of the course, Kycilia - Garma intervened for loosening that moment of least embarrassment - you should see him in the flight' exercises and in the practical tests…. not to speak of the fact that is able of to finish every theoretical test in once equal to halves what is granted! -
- And' for this that you have chosen him for friend Garma? To copy the assignments? - it said with malice the young one
- I don't believe that his Majesty Garma needs my suggestions - Char intervened to support of the friend, with this instigating the polemic tone of Kycilia
- You have found a beautiful devil's lawyer, Garma! -
- Above all, he knows how to recommend me readings and studying…then -Garma continued hesitant - he is experienced in a lot of other things not necessary in the military field, being perfectly trained also, he intends… - the lip almost him repenting himself to have spoken too much
- You have the same age, so I believe? - Kycilia said with safety
- Yes, certain,… but with his cleverness and preparation Char could directly frequent the last year of the course -
- I didn't report me to his military formation Garma - Kycilia specified - I tried to understand what level of experience of life could have matured a boy of your same age. Because not, you look for both to be more specific and done detail? - Kycilia was looking for, to the usual one, to put in difficulty his interlocutors. In fact Garma became livid and resumptions to roll up him among the fingers the lock of hair, while Char didn't show the least subjection
- It is not the case to go down in the particular Majesty! - the deep voice of Char played again calm and definite as of usual
- indeed!… I desire to know instead, do you have arouse my curiosity … - Kycilia assumed a tone of challenge
- You see Majesty…-Char made a break - we were alluding… to experiences on you argue of: sport, horseback riding, trips,……. and of women! - Char finished the sentence with a printed sarcastic smile on the lips and even the fearless Kycilia didn't succeed in checking the blush that the cheeks bedewed. You taken back in an instant and she thought that she would have thought about making to pay, to proper time, that insolence.
Immediately taken back him Kycilia changed discourse
- we hear, therefore, what the last book have been recommended by your expert friend - the youth female underlined the word "experienced" in the attempt not to show to have accused the preceding hit.
Char, being standing to the center of the room, continued, effortlessly, to scrutinize around everything with discretion, while Garma was arranged in armchair.
- Char has tried to convince me than there were interesting two tiresome texts on the last scientific applications experimented by the Center Searches of Thermonuclear Physics on the studies of the prof. Y.T. Minovsky and the bestseller for the more reckless person "From the Contolism to the Newtypes' Age"
Kycilia made a light bump before exclaiming: - It's the book that I am reading!
- And then! The fact that you are so celebrate doesn't also prevent to others to have your literary tastes - Garma intervened
- Tell me brother, have you read them? - said with a point of wickedness Kycilia
- I think about doing it as soon as possible - it said with little conviction Garma - now that is finished the year of academic course, I'll have more time -
Kycilia momentarily swayed the attention from her brother that she always succeeded in putting K.O. with few, and she assembled on Char
- I have intended that you're interesting in the theories of Zion Deykum, Mr. Aznable? At least, you reads the books with attention, I hope,… between an experience and another… - Kycilia both had a slightly softened tone
The auspice of a new stadium probably fascinates me in the evolution of the human kind - the young one said with fervour
Kycilia remained to listen with a lot of attention the words of Char, she joined in conversation with him on some matters and she compared her thought with that of the boy; they were departed two hours from the moment in which the two had made entry in her room and the time flies.
Char had talked her to frankness and conviction, maintaining a definite but polite tone. The young one, suddenly, thought that she would have liked look at him in the eyes, to make herself a more precise idea of his mind.
- Removes from me a curiosity Mr. Aznable, - Kycilia asked without malice - because continuous to bring, also to the inside, the sunglasses? -
-Sorry Princess, You must to excuse me - he answered ready with calm and persuasive voice - but I am affection from a strong fotofobia that adaptation makes difficult both to the light of the solar panels and to the artificial light. Therefore I don't have choice… -
- I understand, and I wish that Your sight, beyond this problem, be good to allow to acquit You to the best duties of officer of the Principality! - Kycilia said ironic
- If it will give me way of showing that to You, I will know how to try not to suffer some physical condition incapacitating - Kycilia didn't want to beat because she had already learned to gather in Char the ability to play on the double senses and to always have the ready answer.
When Garma and Char dismissed him from her, she surprised to confess among herself, to have found pleasant and stimulating the discourse with the fascinating new companion of Academy of her brother.
She detained to reflect on how much different were and found indeed strange that there're so much friendship among two so different people and apparently deprived of whatever affinity. Garma was fundamentally a good boy but spoiled, it preserved lines of infantilism and he difficultly succeeded in hiding his insecurity leading and this was contrasted a so bright and audacious type to the strong, definite and bold temperament of Char.
You picked up the long hair in a soft chignon and definite to make a relaxing bath and to change herself for the Dinner, before going down in the great room.