193: Calm

After Liam left, we made our way to the living room. Feeling more comfortable with everyone there, the moment we moved to the living room, Lily vanished, proving she had been listening to us, just ignoring the question.

And sure enough, entering the living room, she was also “asleep” on the largest seat in the room.

“It’s fine. We’ll likely need Sylverith to get a proper answer of what’s going on anyway,” Milo said.

I let out a sigh, not going to press the issue, though I did have to wonder just how many people Lily moved to the cells, and how.

It seemed like forever before Sylverith walked into the room, looking the same as always, with a pleasant smile on her face, even coming over and sitting down on top of Lily again, who merely shifted just enough to allow her to sit on the seat.

“That was an eventful day, wasn’t it?” she said cheerfully.

Everyone just looked at her, then I noticed all eyes turned to me.

With a sigh, “Sylverith, what happened when you left?”

“Oh, that. Nothing too important. I just had some words with a little troublemaker,” Sylverith said, now scratching Lily behind the ears.

“By cutting the manor in half?” I continued.

Sylverith just laughed. “It was just a little cut, dear. The house was even still standing.”

I didn’t know what to say. How do you even react to that?

“I can see it troubles you. The young lady there has been pulling a lot of strings behind the scenes, and I felt most of it was harmless nonsense, but she incited violence today to interrupt the store opening. I just had a quick little chat with her and made sure it won’t happen again,” Sylverith explained.

“Right, and the Valriths, then?” I asked.

“Oh, dear. Did she kill them all? I asked her to have some restraint.” Sylverith looked down, no longer scratching behind Lily’s ears. This action seemed to stir Lily from her slumber as an eye opened.

“I don’t know that she killed people, but I know she took them to the cells at the palace,” I explained, going by what Liam said.

A giant smile came back to Sylverith’s face again as she went back to scratching.

“That’s good, then! It’s always good when people listen to reason and don’t need to be killed. Sometimes they are entirely unreasonable, but I will say no more. It was an enjoyable day, though. The store opening was a great distraction from the books. Thank you for inviting me,” Sylverith smiled.

Crisplet let off a burst of sparks, clearly agreeing with her.

Everyone else just stared at the unfolding conversation with nothing to add or say.

I couldn’t help but shake my head. “Sylverith, you know you’re terrifying sometimes, right? I would really like to know more, though. I feel like we’ve missed something significant.”

She just chuckled but didn’t respond, instead pulling out a book. From where, I did not know. I didn’t know illusions could have a storage ring, but I also didn’t know illusions could attack, let alone cut a manor in half.

At this stage, I was fairly certain there would be absolutely no attack, and with both Lily and Sylverith here, if anyone did attack, I’d just feel sorry for them.

“Crisplet, do you want to come cook dinner with me?” I asked.

Getting a burst of sparks, however, I had to fight back laughter as both Liane and Lily got to their feet as well.

“Shameless,” Sylverith muttered, earning a stare from Lily in return.

Entering the kitchen, I immediately pulled out the royal cookbook, looking for something different, something new!

Flipping through the pages, I found something interesting: breaded bird cutlets. It used Rok, but I had been seeing the Galvonson in my storage for what felt like months, and other than the one time I had cooked the wings, the rest still sat in my storage untouched.

It may have been a bird much larger than I was. However, compared to the drake, it would be perfectly reasonable to butcher the rest of it down, and then I’m sure I could take slices of the meat and bread them like the recipe instructed. It looked very similar to what Geo made with his fish.

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I made my way into the butcher room. I still had one that I had not butchered at all, and the other was broken down into pieces. Currently, I had two very large breast pieces as well as the two thighs.

I pulled out one of the thighs. The bone was still inside, so I started with my new knife, finding it cut through it so easily I nearly sliced right into the bone itself, but quickly had the bone removed, storing it away and wondering if I could use it for a stock even if it was the size of me.

Storing the deboned thigh, I took it into the kitchen, where Liane and Lily had made themselves comfortable near the oven Crisplet had lit. I started to prepare the rest. One issue I had was that I didn’t have any stale bread to make the crumbs, but an idea struck me.

“Liane, I don’t suppose you could ask Archie if they have any stale bread in the employees’ residence?” I asked.

Liane stood up to go but hesitated before the door. “Won’t that mean you can’t infuse it?”

I kicked myself internally. That was true… “Yes, never mind. New plan.”