Frey watched her daughter in exasperation as the young teen chattered loudly on the newest invention, the telephone. It allowed for communication across cities faster than letters could be delivered. Technology surely was advancing, but the mother was unsure it was in the right direction.
'She's only thirteen, just who could she be talking too?' Frey thought, listening intently for her daughter's lengthy and increasingly more frequent calls.
"Yeah, I'll see if mom can get them. Bye, Dad."
'Oh, Arthur,' Frey thought, returning to the headdress she was making.
Arthur been gone from Selphia for nearly three months, just around the time her daughter persisted that they buy one from a merchant that Barrett and Raven introduced to them as Yue. She carried all sorts of things from far off places, like Green Lake and the capital. Yue also stocked up on items that were hard to come by and often saved Frey from having to travel to the depths of a dungeon to fight hostile boss monsters, not that she minded going if needed.
She finished attaching the last flower and asked her daughter to try it on, making sure it would fit Margaret's daughter who was a mere year younger than her own. The garment fit and she wrapped it up for Thursday's party.
"Hey, mom, do we have anymore big crystals?"
"Hmmm, yeah, there should still be a few left in the trunk. Do you need them for something?"
"No, nothing big," Luna replied, though Frey's mother senses were tingling that she wasn't telling the truth.
"Hey, can you show me a demonstration of the shine spell again, please?"
Frey frowned, but agreed. She followed her daughter to the square and recited the spell from memory. Orbs of bright light surrounded her in rotation as Luna watched in interest at the magic, and then asked for another demonstration.
Luna tried to mimic the spell, having to read the spellbook to keep her words straight, but after nearly two hours succeeded in a proper spell.
"I'll go get some drink to celebrate, be back in a moment!" Before Frey could protest her daughter was already far in the distance.
The woman sighed to herself, curious and worried as to Luna's strange behaviour. She turned back to pick up a broken vase that Luna had shattered when she heard footsteps behind her.
"Luna , you're acting stranger than normal and I-" she turned around and paused, taking in the person in front of her before jumping him. "Arthur!"
The blonde bespectacled man smiled, returning the embrace. Luna watched from further back, smiling at the scene that she had orchestrated for her parents. Phones were rather useful for things like this.