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Chapter Four

I had to admit, that night of "work" was a lot more fun than a regular one.

Liberta had to be one of the most…ignorant people I had ever met. Though that wasn't saying much considering how many people I had actually met—but the point still stood!

Not once during our few hours together did he ever notice an iota of strangeness about the way I acted or how I was oblivious to much of the most simple happenings in a city I lived in.

Still I had to say…I enjoyed it.

The first place he had taken me on his so called walk (it seemed more like a tour to me) was to a tall hill in the northern end of Regalo. From it he had showed me what the city looked like at night from a point of view I had never seen before.

The scenery was defiantly more breathtaking than that of the one from the rooftops I could give him that much.

After that it had been off to the area of the city I rarely visited in my patrols. It was what I tended to call the "nighttime district" of Regalo due to the constant bustle that went on in it even far into the night. The shops there stayed open well past midnight in order to get their share of the midnight rush.

Liberta's reason for taking me there was to show me a fantastic restaurant that was situated right in the center of the hubbub. He claimed that it served the second best food he had ever eaten.

I didn't bother asking what his favorite food was for fear he would divulge the information in a long boring conversation. Instead I just went along and tried to blend with the crowds he pulled me through—rather rudely I might add.

The restaurant he took me to was defiantly a fancy one. At least I was convinced it was, though….again…I suppose my opinion was just short of meaningless in that category.

There was a chandelier hanging from the ceiling, it glinted small flashed of light though its many crystals onto the pleased customers bellow.

To me it was the chandelier that was the best part of the restaurant rather than the food Liberta bought for us, and the tables that had been built to look antique. We had better furniture in the basement that at least I wasn't missing out on.

When we had finished eating Liberta took me back to the ocean, only it wasn't the place he'd met me an hour or two before. It was a small strip of beach by the water.

"What's the reason you took me here?" I had asked him attempting to keep at least a hint of exasperation in my voice. It was a hard feat to accomplish when I was looking at an awe inspiring view of the ocean water reflecting the lights of the nighttime district and the stars above us. It was as if there was a city of underwater creatures beneath the surface, I could almost see the fish swimming about in their own small streets much like the people above. I had been embarrassed by the childish thoughts so I hadn't told him that I thought the scene was fantastic.

He had seemed a little disappointed when I hadn't acknowledge the lights he had thought I would like, but not for long. He then took me to the last destination on the minnie adventure he had taken me on. When we reached it I was both shocked and slightly horrified.

Liberta had taken me to the gardens in front of the Arcana Famiglia's mansion.

Not wanting to alert him to anything strange, I had let him show me all the different colored flowers and had even pretended (almost unwillingly) to love the flowers. Then after a while I had insisted that my family would worry if I stayed out any longer.

"So you do have a family!" He had joked with a grin.

"Of course." I had tried to convince myself that it wasn't totally a lie.

"Well good! Then I won't have to worry about you slinking around in dirty allies anymore!"

"No promises." I had said it with a smile so that he wouldn't suspect that I actually meant that.

"Would you like me to walk you back?"

"No thank you, I wouldn't want my family to know I've been out all this time with a boy." Again, that was half true.

"Alright then." He had turned and walked towards the mansion waving to me over his shoulder, "I'll see you around Emme!"

The weight of guilt had hung on my back ever since he had said goodbye. Not just because I had lied to such a nice boy, but also because I hadn't been able to find the Princess. That would find a worse fate for my serie as a whole.

I was now sitting once again on my chair before the fire, my thick wool blanket forgotten on my lap and my eyes wandering from the fire to the room behind me. I was such a terrible leader, the worst. Always careless and always overconfident. I had used to think I was an excellent leader, but the recent events and my own actions had shown me different.

Did I even deserve to live in the light?