☀️ Arselia and Akonia

Fyr-Fyr has been through so much that it is incredibly difficult to upset or disturb her... Definitely not with paintings, clocks, and, oh no, Kalinin's leadership.

Beata and Guion had also seen some terrible things. Especially the latter. Therefore, he still found the strength to hold on. He had experienced firsthand that as long as you are alive, you need to cling to life and fight at any cost. Even if everything has been taken away from you, including the right to control your own body, as long as you are alive, everything can be fixed. Okay, technically he was still a slave, but in reality... He remembered their conversation with Beata and her reaction. With her last instructions, he was almost no different from an ordinary person.
But Beata was crushed. For the first time, she understood what it was like to lose everything you have. She had never had anything, no home, no friends, no family. Alone in the world, on her own, fend for herself as she could. And she did. She didn't care about anyone, no one cared about her, balance, harmony. But Carneol... She had gotten used to the Carneolians, started to consider them her friends, her team, this house became her home. Exchanging gossip, jokes, and fresh news over breakfast, admiring the paintings in the hall, dozing on the sofa to the cozy ticking of the clock after a hard day... Now all of this is in the past. And she, and only she, is to blame. She played with fire and paid dearly. Why... Why did the others suffer because of her? Why did Guion suffer because of her? All that was left for her now was to cry.