117 12. The Kings Face (1/2)
Saravia's father took no more than one wife and loved and pulled out only one in his lifetime.
The woman was a subordinate nobleman's maid, and she had a happy marriage - weak body, and Saravia died when she was ten years old.
After a while, his father also left the world to follow the rest.
That's why Saravia doesn't have any brothers.
As the season was about to shift from winter to spring, Saravia was concerned that her mother's health would never recover.
Sometimes it's a desert country, and even at this time of year, Sandrose isn't very cold. However, it is also a season that cannot be said to be easy for the sick to spend.
Saravia came to the garden and found her mother sitting by the water.
”Mother, what are you doing here”
”It's not Sarah. Have you finished your morning studies yet?
”... done. So, my mother hasn't been feeling well since morning, has she? I need to sleep...”
What if it gets worse, Saravia asks her mother.
”I'm sorry,” he grins bitterly at his worried son, stroking his head.
”I'm a little calm, so I thought you'd be okay.”
”Already...... My hands are so cold.”
”I think I'm getting a little cold”
Saravia sighs at her mother, looking swallowed.
”Let's get back to the room. You'll see rain clouds in the distance, so it'll be colder in the afternoon.”
”Well, that's tough. Sarah also had an audition for dancing this afternoon...”
”Don't worry about me, mind your own body”
”Yes, sir. Sarah doesn't care.”
Saravia takes her mother's hand and returns to the palace.
But along the way, her mother coughed up and stopped her leg. I immediately grabbed my mother's back, which looked spicy, and said, ”Are you okay?” and speak up.
”Somebody give me a hand because my mother looks spicy!
”Yes, I did, right away!
A servant who traveled through the vicinity noticed the hurried voice of Saravia, and soon came. Take her to her room so she can hold her mother and arrange for a doctor.
I put him to sleep on the sleeping table, but his breathing is disturbing and he's about to suffer.
”... so that's why I wanted you to take your time in the room...”
Saravia distorts her face when she says why she went out to the garden or something.
The mother, who had been coughing for a while, slowly opened her eyes and looked at Saravia as her breathing settled. The fact that I was suffering until just now is a lying smile.
”I'm sorry, Sarah. You surprised me.”
”... it's okay. But you have to be asleep no more today!
”Yeah, right. I thought it would be all right for a little while... but my body is in trouble for not listening to me.”
Saravia sighs frightened, wondering if it is the word of a man about to fall. I sincerely hope you feel a little more at stake.
Saravia sits on a chair placed next to her bedside and stares at her lying mother.
Clear golden hair is glossy straight and has a length to the waist. Brown skin, red eyes. Saravia's appearance inherits her mother's in color.
What resembles an emperor, his father, is his winning eyes and losing personality?
When Saravia sees her sitting, her mother giggles.
”... what is it”
”No. The little one was two melons to me, but I thought Sarah was starting to look a little like him when she grew up and became manly.”
One day Saravia will take over the position of emperor, so I'd like to see her, my mother groans.
”I don't know when my father is leaving, but my mother is the queen, so it's up to me to see her.”
”Hehe, I hope so”
When I could always see it, the only reason my mother didn't say it in the words of certainty was... probably because she had noticed thinly her death.
It was not until Saravia, who was still young, that she realized that, at any rate, she would reign in the emperor.
”... I want Sarah to live long enough to keep an eye on this country.”
”Suddenly again...”
”Right. If I insist, I can't make you a sibling.”
The royal family of Sandrose has taken multiple side chambers for generations and played many children. However, it is tough on her weak body to have any more children, and neither my father, the emperor, nor my new side chamber, thinks of fine dust.
But Saravia was also proud of it.
My parents love only one person in their lifetime.
So much so that the emperors of history even thought that many had side chambers and were not honest. In the future, he wanted to be like that... as a young man.
”Me and that guy will leave the world before Sarah does. So Sarah, I want you to keep an eye on my country.”
”Don't tell me as if I were going to die”
”Because humans, things that you don't know what's there.... Oh, my God, was that a little too sentimental?
With a dull laugh, her mother holds Saravia's hand.
”Just for a moment, I've been thinking about what's going to happen. Sarah, hey Sarah... what I gave you must have been enough to give birth to your life in this world.”
”Don't be silly. I get a lot more stuff from my mother.”
Happy, angry, pathetic or fun. Then, loving someone. The feeling that Saravia loves her parents and the people of this country would have come from her mother's affection.
”One day I want to find someone I care about.”