About a week after Rose had been helping me, she recommended something for me.

  “When it's te at night, and no one is around, why don’t we try to go for a walk” she said while we were eating. It had taken some attempts, but I did get her to eat with me.

  It was a few seconds before I responded.

  “I’m not sure, when would we even do that?” I ask.

  “Well, most of the staff is done working by midnight, and depending on things, you are often still awake then” she tells me, reminding me of my messy sleep schedule now.

  “Well, I think we can give it a chance” I tell her. I had promised Rose that I would try to get better.

  “Great. I think tonight will work fine” she said. “I’ll get clothes ready for you” she had finished her food already. She walked over to my closet while I finished mine.

  When I was done, I wrote another note thanking the kitchen staff and followed Rose to my closet.

  She had picked out a casual outfit for me. The only difference was what shoes she picked out. Normally I peaked ced knee high boots. But Rose picked out a pair of high heeled ankle boots.

  These were new. Mom and I bought them in the capital. They had a much higher heel then any other shoes I owned. Mom bought them so I could get used to a rger heel.

  All my other shoes had the basic heel, but this had a 2 inch heel.

  “Thank you for choosing” I told Rose, “I can change”

  “I’ll help you” she says.

  “I don’t need help”

  “I’m not leaving” she said, very determined and serious.

  And a few minutes ter, I very embarrassedly sat at my desk, as Rose was reading a book.

  ∴

  Later that night, Rose and I left my room.

  As we walked through the halls of the mansions, I was getting really nervous, but when she noticed this, Rose grabbed my hand.

  This helped to calm me down.

  Eventually, we made it outside, to the garden.

  We had several gardens on the grounds, including a rge hedge maze. Even as low level nobles, mom and dad had quite a lot of money.

  The garden we went to was just a bunch of flower bushes, and since it was midnight, none were in bloom.

  But the feeling of the air to my lungs.

  And the smell of the outside.

  And the stars twinkling in the sky.

  It was all amazing.

  For a brief moment, I forgot my fear.

  Rose and I continued to walk for a while before we went back to my room.

  ∴

  Hadron and Cordelia were working te one night. They had been working to find out who orchestrated the attack on them.

  They had several ideas on who it could be, but no clues to narrow it down.

  But while they were working, they heard a noise from outside the office they were using.

  When they went to check it out, they found a door open to the outside. They followed the door and found a very nice sight.

  There was Nyx, walking hand in hand with his maid, Rose. THis was the first time they had seen him in over a month.

  They had to resist the urge to run over and give him a huge hug.

  They know there was a chance that would scare him.

  But they looked at him with absolute happiness.

  After watching him for a while, they made their way back to the office.

  “Well, it seems my pn is working” Hadron said.

  “Yes it does, Rose seems to be helping him quite a bit” Cordelia said. “But what made you think this would work”

  “Thats quite simple. Much like both you and Lilith, Nyx is drawn to cute things.”

  “That is obvious”

  “Yes it is. Its pretty obvious from the way he dresses and how he acts. But unlike you and Lilith I would still call Nyx purly cute”

  “That sounds quite mean”

  “I do not mean for it to be. As much as cute and beautiful are not mutealy exclusive, I would call Lilith definitely a beautiful young dy”

  “And what about me?”

  “You, my dear, are the most beautiful in all the nds. But back to Nyx. I chose Rose because of the fact that she is more beautiful then cute, or at least she will be. I believe this makes it so that Nyx has a hard time saying no to her. The same with Liltih, and you”

  “If that is true, then why could he say no to me. We tried to get him out of his room?”

  “I’m not fully sure. There is a chance that he saw what had happened and what we did during the attack and is just scared still. Or he is afraid of something else. But, this is a step in a good direction”

  “Do you have a next step?”

  “Rose should report her thoughts before the end of the week. I’ll make more pns”

  ∴

  It’s been over a week since Rose and I started our walks and they have been going great.

  She even somehow arranged me to get a bath, and we never saw any other people.

  And today was just exciting.

  She had somehow gotten all of the staff out of my part of the mansion for the day so we could go for a walk during the day.

  When I woke up, Rose had brought me a new outfit. It was the same type of clothes Lilith had always worn.

  It had a more practical white blouse, and a pleated pink skirt. Outside of the colors, it was identical to Liliths style. Liliths was primarily red and bck, compared to my pink and white.

  It also had a set of thigh shorts for under the skirt, and a set of really high boots.

  And stly a leather corset.

  When I had put it all on, and looked in a mirror, the outfit looked familiar, outside of it being what Lilith wore.

  But I couldn’t pce it.

  Outside of the boots, I liked it a lot.

  Over the years, I found out what I liked to wear and what I didn't. And one of the things I liked to wear were tights and stockings. I found them really cute.

  This is why I liked the boots I had been wearing with Rose. They were shorter so they showed them off more.

  But when I started walking in the outfit, I found it pretty easy to move in.

  Evenully, Rose and I made it out to the garden and got to see the floors in bloom this time.

  Eventually, we started going back into the mansion. BUt on our way, Rose speak up.

  This was strange, because our walks were normally silent, outside of me thanking her. So her talking was strange.

  “Master Nyx, I want you to know you will always be safe with me. I will never allow harm to come to you. And I am sorry for this” she said.

  I was confused by what she meant, but before I could respond, she vanished.

  I was confused and started to panic a little being left alone. As I started to panic though something fell behind me. I turned to see what it was.

  There I found a training sword.

  Completely confused, I bent over and picked it up.

  And as I did, I felt something behind me again.

  I turned, trying to figure out what was going on. Only to be met with a sword swinging right at me. It wasn’t moving very fast, and I moved quickly to block it.

  When the two practice swords met, I found who had swung at me.

  “DAD!?”