If… No it can’t be… I’m not that lucky… right?

Baron Verthus’ second child was born just a month ago, and just like normal premes their eyes were squinted. In the beginning, I didn’t pay any heed to the fact they were always squinting, afterall it didn’t matter what the color of their magic was. It didn’t matter to me after all my soul job, given unto me by Lady Thierra, was just to help raise them.

I remember how hesitant their parents were to give them their first bath so early, after all they were such a tiny little thing. For a month we gave them wet rag baths instead of normal ones, still we all knew that they had to get used to full baths soon or a later. So it was decided that once the child was one month old they would have their first true bath.

However, when it was time for the child’s first bath, something I never could have anticipated occured…

At first, the child didn’t react much until we brought them into the washroom, however once they saw it they started flailing about like a panicking ikonami (basically a cat ). All babies squirm around during their first bath after all it’s something completely new to them but still they didn’t react until they saw the tub. Almost like it knew exactly what was going on, and was protesting like a ikonami against the action. Once they came in contact with the water, however its eyes were wide with terror, as if it knew what was going to happen, and was about ready to scream ‘Bloody Murder!’ at Lady Thierra.

The child had always been very quiet and seem to dislike loud sounds in general so this undoubtedly shocked Lady Thierra. I however was stunned by something else and snatched the child to confirm what I saw to be true. Alas much to my ire the child quickly shut their eyes preventing me from seeing them, however I was sure I saw in them the topic of my long abandoned research.