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Chapter 25: Change Of Plan

   Intentionally if my plans didn’t go according to what I’ve initially made, the best route for me is to stop the operation and retreat, or make new ones according to the currents. 
    But the situation is firm and I cannot guarantee that it will succeed, so I am having the hardest time thinking about this situation. The only possible outcome I can see is that we attack both problems at the same time and maybe that I can guarantee our success. 
    Aside from the knights that I brought with me in this journey. We don’t have much time to waste, and we don’t have the necessary needs to attack both sides, because I don’t have much man to help and I can’t expect from any of the people here to help, it will alarm the current count. 
    Thus there is one way we can guarantee the success of this operation. We will lure the marquis━my father in here using one of the best reasons that I can think off but I will have to pay the consequences which I'm well prepared.
    
    That’s right, I told Sain to deliver a message to the Baron and instructed him to send the letter to my father. 
    I know that he is well acquainted with Seira's handwriting and I am formal with fake handwriting that I usually use to trick enemies from the front line while using it as a bait. Beside, I had help with Adrian, and I made sure to copy his handwriting and signature. 
    For the rest of the letter, I reported that Lady Seira or aka me has been kidnapped by the count’s brother, and the rest was the fact about House Krul and what was happening in the southern region. While mentioning that the Lady was trying to save the poor countess from death, she was abducted by the knights ruled under the counts control. 
    I made sure it was believable, while using the situation like ‘we can’t save her with ourselves, the count villa was filled with many guards and we cannot enter’ then I said ‘please marquis help the lady’ and finished the letter with Adrian’s signature. Of course he doesn’t know that I copied his writing and sent a letter under his name. 
    It’s close to midnight and we rented a room in one of the close and distant inn to the town. Two rooms were rented, one was taken by Dores and Adrian while I own the second room. I was startled by this place. Not only was the location far from the main town but the rooms were luxurious enough for travelers, and there was a private hot bath that looked amazing. 
    There is also a lounge for the guests and a private one for those who have important discussions that need to be private, and there is also one small library. Dores told me that this place offers luxury that nobles need, he might have thought that since I am a noble lady, I was tired sleeping on a cold ground outside hearing the knights ridiculous snoring.
    
    But, I wasn't. Yes, they snore loud enough for me to hear but that's just too easy to handle and I myself snore back as Mei, so as my army. 
    A knock suddenly burst through the door, and I looked at it cautiously before I asked who was there. “Miss, it’s Emely the inn’s helper, I came to bathe the miss in the favor of Sir Dores, “ Emely? She must have been that lady earlier who offered us with a bright smile. I see that she is also a helper and I guess it’s not too bad to take a bath. 
    I opened the door, unlocking the door knob and slowly looked at her with confusion. She was smiling, wearing strange western fashion that I will never understand. I nodded and accepted her kind gesture. “Miss---” 
    “Tia is fine, and thank you for helping me take a bath, kind sister. “ 
    I should be older than her mentally but in a physical body, I am still a child. Hence, I need to respect someone that desires to help in my needs but if I am being stabbed back, the same will be returned to them at least 10 fold the suffering.
    She smiled and nodded sincerely before she held my hands. “How about Adrian and Dores?” before we left, I first asked.
    “There is a separate bath house for female and male guests.” I see, wait, I looked at her confused. “Bath house?” Isn’t that a famous word I used to hear in my previous life, strange though. 
    “Ah,” she put my hands down and kneel to match my height. “I heard from Sir Dores that you are a noble, so it's expected that milady won’t know,” I blinked and smiled. 
    No, maybe I do know. “There is a continent in the east, our tradition is so different from our country, they speak the mother tongue of Lucinda, it is the Easternian Ancient language that we do not understand.”
    I remember that, in the book I read, it was written in a language I was familiar with and yet the name was different from the one I used to know. It was the Easternian Ancient Language of the oldest renaissance, having to understand local Easternian is different to the western imperial mother tongue. They said that many do not understand their language and many were confused over that fact. 
    I believe as well, unless you learn the basics of the eastern alphabet, you don’t need someone who can translate what you were about to say. 
    Lucinda is the goddess of sun, a myth goddess praised by the eastern people. They believe that Lucinda the goddess had blessed them with a language that only they can understand, but the truth about Lucinda is that she was a hero who was given the role to guide upon the east. 
    “So, the East was famous for their unique invention and one of those is the hot bath, a bath for adventurers or travelers from a distant land who needs refreshment.” 
    Therefore, I understand, the product of a foreign country was taken liken by most of the people here and also what a product made from here does in a foreign country.
    Although I don’t go to that place, those places are very famous. Even my men before would skip training to go there. I never tried once, so this will be my first time aside from when I was back in Shamans Province.
    “Where are you from, milady? I’ve never seen you before.” She asked and so I looked at her and smiled. “We came here to meet someone, I live by the capital of the empire.” 
    We walked slowly and reached the hot bath that was located near the lounge. There were other people coming in and out of the separate hot bath and there I saw my men standing at the entrance of the woman’s hot bath.
    
    There was the sign written in a pink curtain, while it was half covered from the inside. Yet the design feel’s so familiar to me, the old planks and curtains, from the hallways design. 
    I was so shocked to even respond when Adrian called me. “Milady?” He once again said and this time I looked at him confused.
    “What’s the matter?” I ask. 
    “Milady, there is a problem.” Dores said then he kneel to match with my height and then I could see the change on his face to palid, as his lips tightened from his grit, it seemed that this was a serious matter.
    “The marquis sent us a letter, he said that he’ll be here in a day or half, and I was afraid because he seemed frustrated and the writing was messed up.” He whispered enough for me to hear, and that he made sure that this woman cannot hear what he was going to say. 
    Therefore after learning about that message, I left with a sigh and smile. It seems that my method is working, hopefully he will make it in time because tomorrow morning to afternoon, I will now proceed with the second phase of my plan. 
    “Yes, it seem that I have less to worry now.” I whispered and held back Emely’s hand and Dores gave me a face so confused that even Sain looked at me and he smiled.
    Leaving them confused after that conversion made them back-out the thought that I was afraid, so they decided to tell me about the news about my father’s sudden approach and Adrian didn’t know that he was the one who summoned the marquis with his own hand writing and reports. Of course I felt guilty by lying but what is a surprise without lies? It is bittersweet in the end. 
    I soaked myself in the bath made out of hot water, with the other ladies of a different age. Emely taught me about the hot bath and how they do it, then she bathed me and soaked me with bubble soap and cleaned my whole body. It was ticklish at first but it was not that enough to make me cry, just that Seira’s body is sensitive. 
    A long breath left me grasping and looked at Emely who was just beside me mesmerizing the hot water below her. “Sister Emely, how old are you?” I ask since she looks like 20 yet rather she appears to be 30 and now I am confused.
    She gave me a tire and a long stare before she looked ahead. “Lot of people asked me that too, they said I look like 20 or 30 but honestly I am not even that old, I'm just 19 this year. How about milady?” Is that so, she’s just 19 but her features looks like she was 30 so it was not a wonder why many people prefer to ask instead of getting confused.

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