A/N: Read at your own risk.

Not betaed.

Chapter 20: Tradition

She sat at the nearest bench inside the fenced court. Trying to evade the answers would be futile since they are persistent like that. They may even try to barge in on the palace secretly if she did not answer them. That one time they did it was enough.

"There is a tradition in our family to travel and see the world before our coming of age." She told them petulantly. "No one could break that tradition and I have already bended it when I left ten days after my birthday. There is only so much I could bend before everything else breaks."

"What are the other traditions you broke?"

"Transferring from Gakushuin is."

"What else?"

"I was supposed to have friends only from the nobles."

"There's more. What is it?"

Narrowing her eyes in irritation, she puffed her cheeks yet still she answered.

"I can only go back here twice a year during my excursion."

-tbc