If Lord Overseer liked Kiana, and Kiana liked Lord Overseer too, then she should bless them.
As her older sister, she should bless her younger sister. Bishop Otto was not her husband here as he had been in the Dream World.
But Rita also had feelings for Lord Overseer...
Durandal pressed her lips together, her expression darkening slightly. The excitement and anticipation she had felt about going to see Siegfried vanished without a trace. Perhaps some things were more important than seeing Siegfried.
She did not even know how she had returned to her bedroom.
Kiana and Firefly had already gone to rest, while Durandal moved a chair onto the balcony of her room. She sat beneath the moonlight, and its bright glow warmed her heart slightly. She could not help recalling how, beneath just such moonlight, Bishop Otto had pulled her along in a daze to get their marriage certificate.
But that had been magic cast upon Cinderella. Once she left the Dream World, she had become Cinderella again.
Durandal returned to her bedroom, walked to the wardrobe, and took out an outfit.
She took out Princess of Winter.
This was the outfit Bishop Otto had given her. Durandal knew it was a relic her mother had left for her, but she still remembered the day Bishop Otto had handed it to her.
She had experienced what it felt like to have a mother.
Her pajamas slowly slipped away. Moonlight streamed in through the window and fell across Durandal, as though draping the princess of the moon in a dreamy veil. Looking at herself in the mirror, Durandal slowly put on Princess of Winter.
It was not her first time wearing this outfit.
But the first time she had worn it, she had worn it for Bishop Otto to