Inside the Snow Globe, a white snowy owl chased a rabbit across the ground.
A red crack seemed to separate them into two different spaces.
"Mu..."
Large tears fell onto the Snow Globe. Bronya could no longer get out a complete sentence.
Long ago, when the girl had first arrived at the Orphanage, she had owned a precious Snow Globe.
Later, the children who bullied her had smashed it.
The girl had acted as if she did not care, but the loss had weighed on her for a long time.
Until her brother gave her a gift.
It was a damaged Snow Globe.
The girl treasured the gift. She even named the animals inside, treating them as companions and whispering her secrets to them.
Mr. Snow Owl, Miss Rabbit.
She would always hold the Snow Globe as she sat on the steps outside the Orphanage.
When would her brother come back?
The nights in the Underworld were always cold, but Mr. Snow Owl and Miss Rabbit would stay with her.
When her brother appeared, she would dash down the steps and throw herself into his arms.
Hand in hand, they would return to the Orphanage together.
During that time, her brother would hold her hand tightly. He never told her that his eyesight was getting worse.
Even when he finally went blind, he still kept the truth hidden.
Her brother really was an idiot. He could fool plenty of people, but never his little sister.
Perhaps he knew he could not hide it from her, too.
He knew that his sister knew everything. But as long as he said nothing, neither would she. It was their unspoken understanding.
So there had never been any Wicked King's True Eye, had there?
There had only been a brother's kindly lie to his